By BRANDON HURLEY Sports Editor [email protected] @BrandonJHurley EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was compiled with references to the Smithsonian Magazine, the Des Moines Register, Thegreatautorace.com ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] It was on a February night, more than a century ago, when the home of the Iowa Stock Remedy Co. — makers of a popular worm remedy for animals known as Iowa Worm ...

By BRANDON HURLEY [email protected] EDITOR’S NOTE: For the sake of everyone’s sanity, and time, we have split the County All-Decade teams into two parts. This week, we release the boys’ All-Decade ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] Spenser Hardin once had the displeasure of being stuffed in a cubicle, that most ubiquitous of office configurations, whose design suggests, “We don’t trust ...

By Brandon Hurley Sports Editor [email protected] @BrandonJHurley ---Everybody enjoys a nice list. It often incites drama and debate. And in the business we are in, that’s a mighty fine plan. So, ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] At first, Ralph Miller was truly stranded in China as flights were canceled and borders closed in response to the pandemic. Then a weird thing happened. For the ...

A little more than four years ago - on October 2, 2018 - prominent Saudi Arabian journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, 59, was murdered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. Khashoggi had been ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] Editor’s note: This story is being reposted in honor of the 60th anniversary of Khrushchev’s historic visit to west-central Iowa. It originally ran in April ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] College bowl season is here, presumably much to the delight of the months-old sportsbook at Wild Rose Casino. But imagine turning on a game — take your pick, be ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] Nothing much had happened along the Lincoln Highway in more than 60 years when Bob and Joyce Ausberger hit the road with cans of red, white and blue paint to ...

Staff report After distributing more than $1 million in grants on April 7, the Grow Greene County Gaming Corp. announced Saturday it will be injecting an additional $35,000 into the community to ...

By JIM WYCKOFF Special to The Jefferson Herald Fifty years ago on any snowy winter night in Jefferson, Lincoln Way was a thoroughfare for dozens of brightly colored snowmobiles whizzing through town.