Marshalltown News

Birth mom searching for daughter born in 1970 late summer or early fall in Marshalltown, Iowa.

The Iowa Smokefree Air Act went into effect July 1, 2008, and as the weather turned colder, league play at Premiere Bowling and Entertainment in Pleasant Hill slowed in pace, but not in numbers.

Thursday is the 27th Annual Blood Donor Day held in cooperation with The Blood Center of Iowa, Nationwide and 95/KGGO. The annual effort to save lives started early this morning.

The Marshalltown Public Library received an award from the International Interior Design Association's Great Plains Chapter.

Scratch its shimmering surface and any storybook ending, or "overnight success" story, has some dirt, grit and hard labor encrusted underneath.

The Marshalltown school district wants to collect on unpaid school lunch tabs. The school board has approved a proposal to hire a collection agency to collect money from past due school lunch accounts.

A national commission investigating immigration enforcement under the Bush administration has released a comprehensive new report documenting the impact immigration raids have had on families, workplaces and communities across the country.

Edna L. Medberry, 88, of rural Beaman, died Friday, June 12, 2009, at her home. Funeral services were at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, June 17, 2009, at the Beaman United Methodist Church in Beaman.

Raids conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on workplaces and in homes during the Bush administration violated constitutional rights and civil liberties, trampled workers' rights, fostered racial profiling and created long-lasting harm to communities and families, according to a report by the United Food and Commercial ...

If the wind was a hot baseball prospect, all the major league scouts would have been in Marshalltown Thursday night.

A 19-year-old Sioux City man, charged in the death of his four-month-old daughter in February has bonded out of jail.

A commission that includes U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack released a report today condemning past tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Note: Arrest for a crime is not a determination of guilt. Guilt or innocence is always established in a court of law.

Don Emdia Jr. of Donnellson was elected commander of the Iowa Departments of American Veterans Sunday in Marshalltown.

Karen Handy, of Fort Dodge, was sitting at the wheel of her brand new Toyota Prius on a spring day a little more than two years ago, waiting patiently for a traffic light to change.

Linda Emily Jordan, 61,Tama, died Saturday, June 6, 2009, at Marshalltown Medical & Surgical Center.

Iowa's growers are being urged to take advantage of free ACRE Answers Seminars on the new Average Crop Revenue Election program this summer, sponsored in part by the Iowa Corn Growers Association .

By John Speer Editor Present Tama County Magistrate Anne Kuhter was selected to serve another term Friday by the Tama County Magistrate appointing commission.

It was a strong opening round of golf for the North Central Confrerence on Monday in Marshalltown.

A woman and five children escaped uninjured from an early morning fire in Marshalltown.