Mount Pleasant News

Southeast Iowa has higher unemployment rates than the state average, with Lee and Henry counties in the top five counties.

Smashburger operating partner Rob Ramey hands an order of 100 percent certified Angus beef burgers to Robin Burghardt of Wayne.

The following is a statement from Carvin for Congress : Mount Pleasant Republican Chairwoman Nancy Meehan today endorsed Joe Carvin's candidacy for Congress in the 17thA district .

Investigators say skeletal remains discovered in rural southeastern Iowa in March are those of a 24-year-old mother who vanished last year.

A police officer makes a pencil rubbing from the memorial wall at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial May 15, 2009.

Opponents and advocates for Pennsylvania's new oil and gas drilling law will get their say in court beginning June 4. That's when the Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg has scheduled oral arguments in the lawsuit against Pennsylvania's Act 13, according to the Observer-Reporter newspaper in Washington.

A Bettendorf company has been fined $35,000 for burning demolition debris and failing to properly dispose of asbestos.