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Rebekah Kimzey, daughter of Mark and Linda Kimzey, of Mt. Pleasant, was named to the President?s List at Simpson College in Indianola for the spring semester.To be named to the President?s List, a student must have a GPA of 4.0.Megan Myers, daughter of Michael and Tracy Myers, of Burlington; Madysinn Crull, daughter of Carrie Hobbs and Mark Crull, of Mt. Pleasant; and Brianne Potts, daughter of Michael and ...

Karyn Renee Mehaffy?s disappearance is no longer being considered an abduction, according to the Henry County Sheriff?s Office. Mehaffy is now classified as a runaway.The change was made based on new information. According to the sheriff?s office, Mehaffy and Wilfredo Martinez Gonzalez, 20, were seen together at a family residence Saturday in Indiana. Mehaffy did not appear to be in distress, the spokesperson ...

IOWA CITY ? Pekin?s Aaron King and Austyn Vogel finished atop their weight classes to lead the Panthers to fifth place out of 12 teams at the Iowa City Regina Invitational Saturday.With only seven Panthers in attendance, the squad scored 86.5 points, eight behind Fairfield and one ahead of sixth-place Columbus.King (120) breezed to the championship match, winning by fall in 1:29 in the quarterfinal round ...

Van Buren 78, MSAE 34The Van Buren boys? basketball team shot 70 percent from the floor Friday on its way to blasting Maharishi School 78-34 in Fairfield.Behind Colin Weaver?s game-high 28 points and Elliott Remick?s 20 points, the Warriors built a 32-8 lead after the first quarter. Maharishi School failed to keep up with Van Buren?s speed or hot shooting and the deficit grew to 53-19 at halftime and 78-26 ...

KEOSAUQUA ? For head coach Al Chapman and the Pekin wrestlers, it wasn?t about whether they would win their duals Thursday, but about by how much.?Our plan was to dominate after we watched Van Buren and West Burlington wrestle first,? said Chapman about the triangular in Keosauqua. ?We knew if we wrestled as hard as we have in practice we could go out and dominate, and that was our word of the night: dominate.?...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? ESPN college football analyst Craig James, who starred as a tailback at Southern Methodist University and with the New England Patriots in the 1980s, announced Monday he was running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Texas, a GOP fundraiser said.James, who appears on the cable network?s weekly game broadcasts, has been flirting with entering politics for more than year. Republican ...

NEW LONDON ? The Cardinal wrestling team was the benefactor of four forfeits in its dual with Highland on Thursday and came away with a 47-36 win.The Comets also wrestled New London and fell by a final score of 49-27.Levi Rupe (106), Josh Ramos (170), Tonch Craver (182) and Andrew Hemm (195) all received forfeits vs. Highland. Ryan Cale (120), Robert McLaughlin (152) and Jonathan Rupe (160) won their ...

OSKALOOSA ? For the first time in a long time, the Trojans knew before they had even taken the mat Thursday that they wouldn?t have a chance at a dual victory.Taking a six-member varsity squad up to Oskaloosa, the Trojans were simply battling for individual success as they forfeited more than half of their matches to drop a 48-21 dual to the Indians.It was an uncharacteristically empty lineup for the ...