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John Gaines/The Hawk Eye The Rev. Joy Carroll Wallis shares her stories on becoming a minister during the Manning Lecture Series Thursday at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

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Baldwin is filling a vacant seat on the board and will serve through 2012. She was among six new members appointed to the 19-member statewide body on Jan.

In 1984, I worked for a short time as a Greenpeace canvasser in Washington, DC. Walking door to door to gain signatures on petitions and dollars for Greenpeace, I grew to dread the nights that I was sent to the wealthy suburbs.

View Photo Gallery - Four years after it was badly burned in a midnight fire, residents of a low-income apartment building on Mount Pleasant Street NW are seeking financial assistance from the District to help rebuild the property, which remains an eyesore in the community.

The ex-boyfriend of a 21-year-old woman found stabbed to death on the side of a Washington County road was charged Monday in her slaying.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Jared Hershberger, left, district representative for Rep.

More than 400 Catholics will travel with Bishop Joseph R. Cistone to attend Monday's annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., to protest abortion.

A 2006 Buick driven by Alejandra Rojas was eastbound on Washington Street in the inside lane when it stopped to wait for traffic to clear before turning left onto Cherry Street.

Sick of dating online? Try dating in alignment instead. Kelly DiNardo, owner of Mount Pleasant's Past Tense Studio , thinks people could meet their match on the mats.

Republican presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry of Texas continued to fight for votes Saturday, squeezing in a quick morning talk in Mount Pleasant before a Fox News forum.