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ALLISON ? The trio of hurricanes ? Harvey, Irma and Maria ? have wreaked havoc and left a mess to clean up in their wake across Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. They have also had far-reaching impacts beyond their immediate path.That includes in Northeast Iowa, where residents of Butler County are still recovering from the fall floods of 2016.?I think they kind of feel forgotten. Especially with the hurricanes ...

More budget cuts may be in the future for the Mt. Pleasant Community School District as student enrollment continues to decline.Monday night, during the Mt. Pleasant Community School District's meeting of the school board, Director of Business and Finance Ed Chabal discussed the district's unspent authorized budget. A district's unspent authorized budget is the difference between the district's legal budget ...

A pickup backed into a parked car Oct. 3, in Mt. Pleasant, causing an estimated $3,500 damage to the vehicles.According to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department, a 2017 Toyota truck, owned by Orkin LLC and operated by Jimmy Petersen, of Washington, backed into the car on the 300 block of North White Street.The parked car was a 1999 Ford, owned by Ronald Welker, of Mt. Pleasant.There were no injuries reported.

CEDAR RAPIDS ? As the demand for naloxone, a countermeasure to opioid-related overdoses that health officials say claimed 180 lives in Iowa last year, is increasing, the cost will drop as the result of an agreement the Iowa Attorney General's Office reached with a drugmaker.The deal makes public agencies ? law enforcement, emergency medical services and hospitals ? eligible for a $6-per-dose rebate on naloxone ...

WAYLAND ? Henry County law enforcement officials still are looking for answers as to why a driver became unconscious Oct. 4 while operating a vehicle and causing over $21,000 in damage to structures in Wayland.According to the Henry County Sheriff's Office, Tanner Pace, no address disclosed, was westbound on Iowa Highway 78 approaching the city limits of Wayland. At some point, he became unconscious and when he ...

Dillon Drake threw a two-hitter for the Spartans to silence the top seed in the 3A state tournament, as Solon defeated Dubuque-Wahlert 12-2 on Tuesday.Drake?s performance featured two strikeouts, no walks and both of his runs allowed were unearned, as the senior won his first game of 2016 at Principal Park. He?s one of three pitchers in the class to not allow an earned run at the state tournament.Offensively, ...

John Lackey and Aroldis Chapman outperformed Chris Sale in his return from a jersey-trashing suspension.The Cubs did just enough against the White Sox ace in his six innings and rode their own pitching to a 3-1 victory Thursday night in Chicago?s rivalry series.Chapman earned his first save for the Cubs since being acquired from the Yankees, leaving the crowd buzzing by consistently throwing 102 mph.?It was ...

Peggy Knudsen's favorite place in all of Israel is the Sea of Galilee. It is a place that has been untouched by the modern world. No buildings are able to be built on top of a historical site there.?The reason it means so much to me is because you can't build a big church on the Sea of Galilee,? Peggy said, after she and her husband Monte Knudsen, pastor at Faith Community Outreach Church (FCOC) returned from ...