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WILLIAM a oeBILLa SECOR SR. Article Photos William "Bill" Secor, Sr., 88 of Fort Dodge, died Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at the Fort Dodge Trinity Regional Medical Center.

Associated Press - April 7, 2009 1:44 PM ET DES MOINES, Iowa - San Francisco seems a world away from rural Marshall County, Iowa, but this week the two will join in giving the cold shoulder to plastic grocery bags.

Melbourne, Ia. - A symbolic show of support for the environment doesn't take effect until April 9, but the controversy has already begun.

If passed, the Local Option Sales Tax is supposed to help those whose homes were completely destroyed by flood waters.

For John Galvin, this vote is personal. "38 years we lived in our house and we had 8 feet of water throughout, so we're looking for a buyout," he said.

A Baxter man lost his home to a raging fire on Thursday afternoon. The Newton Daily News reported that firefighters fought the flames at Phillip Calvin's home at 104 N. West Ave.

Dr. Jane Margaret Chalmers passed away on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008, at her home in Iowa City following a long illness.

Iowa's rural communities sit atop some of the richest topsoil in the world. But experts including Richard Longworth, who studies the impact of globalization in the Midwest, raise the warning that market systems ...