Pleasant Valley News

More companies are hiring in the Quad Cities. Kelly Services Staffing in Davenport is looking for people to place in long-term temporary jobs, short-term temporary work and direct placement positions.

A Fort Dodge house with a collapsed rear wall and another rundown home filled with trash and at least one animal carcass with be demolished this month.

Several weeks ago, Paige McKinsey, 16, found herself on an unusual academic firing line.

There are no fingerprints and no bullets or spent casings that specifically link Bryce Gully to the shooting death of Matthew Huffman.

Bryce Gully was found not guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree robbery charges Friday afternoon, about an hour and a half after the jury began deliberations in Webster County District Court.

Seven witnesses testified Tuesday, but none identified Bryce Gully as the person who shot and killed Matthew Huffman on Sept.

A massive crash and truck fire closed down Interstate 80 in the Quad Cities. 9-1-1 calls started coming in around 6:15 pm Monday night from a stretch of Interstate 80 between LeClaire and Bettendorf about three miles west of the Mississippi River close to Exit 306.

Mary Beth Frischmeyer and her friend Corinne Mikos made a spur of the moment decision Friday morning - they decided to help pick up litter and debris with members of the Harry C. Meriwether Masonic Lodge No.

When Martha Wheat spends time outside of her home in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood, she can look around and see the changes that have occurred in the past year.

CLAIRE JOHANNESEN, senior, Waukee Johannesen ran on three winning relays at the Drake Relays: the 4x100-meter relay, the sprint medley and the 4x400, which set an all-time Iowa best and Drake meet record of 3:50.21. ANDREW SWANSON, junior, Pleasant Valley Swanson led his school to its third straight title in the Drake Relays boys' 4x800-meter ...

The Waukee boys' 4x400-meter relay team was edged out by a hundredth of a second by Indianola for the Drake Relays' title.

Troy Lewis kisses and hugs her son, Xavier's Patrick Lewis, after he won the boy's 100-meter on the second day of the 100th anniversary Drake Relays at Drake Stadium in Des Moines Friday.

Jenna Caffrey had just finished her heat of the women's university 100-meter hurdles Friday during the 100th running of the Drake Relays at Drake Stadium.

The Rev. Madai Taylor and members of the Agape Church Wheel of Compassion Ministry and the community are literally taking the message that drugs are not welcome in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood to the streets.

Blue-shirted brigades are a familiar sight in Fort Dodge once warm weather hits.

Heavy rain pushed part of Spencer Creek in Pleasant Valley to flood its banks in some places.

Perhaps the strongest case for a citywide initiative to give Davenport's schoolchildren a free college education is the need to combat a decade-long trend of declining enrollment in the city's school district, ...

Perhaps all your shopping is done, wrapped and tucked under the tree so it doesn't bother you when you hear "only four more shopping days until Christmas." But if not all is finished and you have a gardener on ...

The United Way and Community Foundation of Northwest Iowa is a major force for good in our region.

A former treasurer for the Pleasant Valley Sports Boosters association has pleaded no contest to a felony grand theft charge stemming from an embezzlement from the high school athletics fund-raising group.