Prescott News

All of the beer resumes have been reviewed, all of the votes have been tallied, and the judges have narrowed all the applicants down to the following three finalists, which will go on to compete at the 2012 Beerdrinker of the Year contest.

Iowa State Fair traditionalists can relax; the 2011 4-H Grand Champion steer "Otter," raised by 18-year-old Madisyn Jorgensen of Guthrie Center, is not a clone.A few feathers were ruffled a year ago when the Champion steer, shown by Tyler Faber of Sioux Center, turned out to be an animal cloned from the 2008 champion.Cloning isn't against the ... (more)

The Iowa National Guard has confirmed that a Guardsman from Shell Rock has died in Afghanistan as a result of injuries incurred from a roadside bomb.

I have known newspaper editors who subsist entirely on beer, but never in the name of religious sacrifice.

J. Wilson has been a home brewer for 14 years. He is set to experience what German monks did in the 17th century by living on 'liquid bread' during Lent.