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Gov. Chet Culver offered to help local officials in luring a new hydropower-generator manufacturing plant to the community during a stop in Keokuk Thursday morning.

Supervisors Tuesday appointed Booten to fill the final year of a four-year term as recorder.

Mayor Steve Ireland has worked four years to make the project a reality, and hopes renovations will be complete by next spring.

That is the question before the Fort Madison City Council. Council members Tuesday heard from those both for and against establishing a new tax levy of up to $1.50 per $1,000 of assessed valuation on business property within the city's Main Street District.

Most of the marchers were carrying signs with slogans such as "Take my hand, not my life," and "Abortion stops a beating heart," and were happy to explain the meaning behind the annual Right to Life March.

But that would never be. Year after year, more and more victims of abuse become statistics, a reality that can only be described as a vicious cycle.

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Lee County supervisors unanimously approved contracts Tuesday with two Spencer-based companies for hosting and maintenance of the new county Web site.

Candidates kicked off the Lee County Republican Party's caucuses Saturday afternoon and many eyes in the state were on Lee County awaiting the results of the party's only gubernatorial straw poll.

Reports are taken directly from the daily logs of area law enforcement agencies.

Bernard A. Boyle, a nationally known champion duck caller and duck call maker from Danville, died Tuesday morning in a two-vehicle crash north of Fort Madison.

Isaac Peiso Molapo, 7 month old son of Tsooane and Rachael Martin Molapo, of Ft.

People on both sides of issue will be present Tuesday at the Capitol. By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES ccrippes@thehawkeye.com Same-sex marriage opponents are set to hit the ground running when the Legislature returns to session Monday.

Dave Loebsack, not the Lee County Economic Development Group. The amount of the tax credit was reported incorrectly in a story Tuesday.

Money included for Fort Madison plant. Local and wire reports More than $3.4 million in stimulus money is headed to Fort Madison, and the Obama administration hopes dozens of jobs will accompany it.

" Congressman Dave Loebsack announced that Siemens Energy will receive $3,450,900 in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for a new manufacturing plant in Fort Madison.

It will be an unusual show in the now-popular Bart Howard Room at the Des Moines County Heritage Center.

Iowans are being questioned regarding whether they feel bringing prisoners from Guantanamo to the prison in Thomson, Ill., may present a danger to our citizens.

The city of Fort Madison will pick up discarded Christmas trees beginning Jan. 6 on the west end of town and Jan.

A fire destroyed the home of a Montrose couple Saturday evening, devouring their possessions but mercifully sparing their lives.