Escorted from the Iowa Speedway by dozens of motorcyclists, veterans who will be participating in Tuesday's Jasper County Freedom Flight to Washington, D.C., entered Newton Senior High School around 1 p.m. this afternoon for a sendoff ceremony. Dozens of area residents applauded and waved flags as the veterans entered the building. See Monday's print and online versions of the Newton Daily News for more photos of the event. ... Read More »
When Levi Pence purchased the original Wallace Funeral Family Home in 1984, he inherited something else along with the business: Andy Emmert. Pence and Emmert formed a bond over the years, and together will they travel on the final Jasper County Freedom Flight. ... Read More »
Escorted from the Iowa Speedway by dozens of motorcyclists, veterans who will be participating in Tuesday's Jasper County Freedom Flight to Washington, D.C., entered Newton Se
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DES MOINES (AP) — Iowa officials are warning spring paddlers to be wary of cold water and debris piled on by full streams.The state Department of Natural Resources says the wa
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DES MOINES (AP) — The wet start to the corn planting season is expected to reduce the amount each acre produces this year, but farmers are planting so much of the crop that th
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The 165,000 jobs the U.S. economy added in April weren’t the only reason to be cheered by Friday’s employment report.Nearly as significant were the Labor Dep
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Schoolchildren in Minnesota and Wisconsin got a rare May snow day Thursday as a storm dropped up to 16 inches of sticky snow across a beleaguered region tha
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PELLA — “All in” has been one of the more commonly-used phrases for the Newton boys soccer team this season, and on Thursday night, the Cardinals lived up to that saying.After
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In 2009, J.J. Abrams boldly rebooted the Star Trek franchise in an effort to revitalize a product that really hadn’t gone anywhere new in more than a decade. As a Trekker, I o
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MEDIAPOLIS (AP) — An entry from the southeast corner of Iowa has been named best burger in the state.The Des Moines Register says the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association and the Iow
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In 2005, the Newton City Council took a gamble on the idea that a multi-million-dollar speedway in the midst of Iowa’s cornfields would pay off for our community, our county,
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Wednesday, the students of Newton Senior High School fanned out across the community, tending to projects in need of helping hands, as part of Red Pride Service Day. That’s so
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Roger Irvin Herr, 95, of Newton, formerly of Dallas Center, passed away Wednesday evening, May 15, 2013, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.A funeral service for R
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A. Harold Sparks, 91, a resident of Park Centre Retirement Community, Newton, died May 13, 2013, in the Park Centre Care Center.Albert Harold Sparks, the son of Oral Asbury an
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