Missouri Valley News

Sean Keeler's guest for his weekly chat at DesMoinesRegister.com at 12:30 p.m. today will be former Drake point guard Adam Emmenecker.

Northern Iowa quarterback Pat Grace has been named to the watch list for the Walter Payton Award, an honor given to the nation's top player in the Football Championship Subdivision.

Red, white and blue-clad volunteers and workers greeted the masses Thursday evening when the gates opened to the annual Wild West Festival in Municipal Park.

Think of them as the dark, wild cousins of the standard raspberry. Red on the vine, they evolve to a deep purple-black when ripe.

By the end of last year's Omaha Summer Arts Festival, Nate Knott's pottery tent had a sign posted on the table.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Dr. Samuel Goldman, chancellor of Southern Illinois University, and Dr.

Cherokee or bust - Not much is know about this group of rambling cowboys, and the Cherokee County Archives need your help.

Nestled between Western Iowa's Loess Hills and the Missouri River, and between Sioux City and Omaha , lies the town of Onawa, Iowa.

Missouri State junior pitcher Buddy Baumann has been named one of 50 finalists for the college Pitcher of the Year Award presented by the College Baseball Foundation and Mizuno.

The Wichita State women's tennis program won its 10th Missouri Valley Conference Championship, and its third in the past four years, with a 4-0 win over seventh-seeded Northern Iowa Sunday afternoon at the Hanscom Indoor Tennis Center in Omaha, Neb.

The cost to file land records in Iowa would triple to pay to redact personal information from public documents under a bill that passed the House today.

The budget for the upcoming 2009-2010 school year was adopted by the Emmetsburg Community Schools Board of Education during a meeting held Apr.

Missouri State freshman Catherine Dolan carded a career low, 1-under-par 71, in the second round of the Missouri Valley Conference Championship on Saturday in Panora, Iowa.

The Missouri State women are tied for sixth place after the first day of the Missouri Valley Conference Championships in Panora, Iowa.

The campaign to save the Northern Iowa baseball program has failed, leaders of the effort acknowledged today.

Scott "Scoot" Anderson inked a letter of intent to play football at NAIA William Jewel.

Monday night's storm caused serious damage across the Missouri Valley area and Omaha area, flattening a house and sending a deliveryman's van airborne and into a ditch.

Creighton finished a three-game Missouri Valley Conference series sweep of Illinois State on Sunday afternoon, topping the Redbirds 2-1 for the Bluejays' third one-run win in the series.

MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa -- About 20 volunteers showed up Tuesday morning to help sort through the rubble pile that used to be Kathy Spiera s home.

Scott Patterson MISSOURI VALLEY - Cleanup continues in areas affected by Monday's severe weather.