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Desperate cries for help broke the silence in the air as a crowd of 500 student onlookers locked their eyes on the deadly crash scene before them. Meg Schroeder's black and pink prom dress blew.......
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ROCK ISLAND -- Joy Davis and Mary Marbry have lived in the West End for more than 20 years. Both women have pledged not to.......
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WASHINGTON -- Illinois and Iowa farm lawmakers heaped praise on the compromise Farm Bill announced Thursday, pledging to help.......
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John and Brenda Warner lost their 25-year-old daughter, Shelly, to preeclampsia several years ago after she gave birth to her.......
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ALEDO -- A fundraiser is scheduled Friday for a regional chapter of Outdoors Without Limits, which provides activities and.......
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ALEDO -- Aledo Main Street has been awarded a $6,000 state grant to start a free wireless Internet service in the city’s.......
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The Henry County Health Department announces that a special Heart Disease Awareness Walk is being held in Cambridge. A memory.......
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The Henry and Stark County Health Departments and the local chapter of La Leche announces that they will be hosting a.......
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Alcoa named its president, Klaus Kleinfeld, as its new chief executive Thursday. Mr. Kleinfeld, 50, had.......
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- More jobs at coming to Whirlpool Corp. refrigerator plant in Middle Amana in eastern Iowa. The.......
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois Tool Works Inc., a conglomerate known for making dozens of mostly small acquisitions every year,.......
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WASHINGTON — As millions of Americans begin receiving their economic stimulus payments, the Internal Revenue Service released.......
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Nominations are open for the DavenportOne Chamber of Commerce “Small Business of the Year” Award. “Small businesses.......
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Caught in the maelstrom of higher gas and food prices, Americans -- even more affluent ones -- are seeking.......
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A Davenport woman was released from jail Thursday after appearing on a charge related to the alleged bilking of $75,000 from a 97-year-old victim. Sally Ann Carmichael, 65, of 2417 Jebens Ave.,.......
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Two Davenport men were arrested Tuesday and face burglary charges. Sherrell Quintrad Robinson, 19, 225 W. 5th St., Davenport,.......
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A new trial was scheduled Thursday for a former defense contract manager accused of taking a $1 million kickback after inflating.......
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On 5/6/08, the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office was called to investigate a body discovered on Funk’s Hill Road between Burlington Road and County Road G28. The body was that of a male and the.......
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Local authorities arrested two Davenport men Wednesday morning in Silvis after an alleged four-kilogram cocaine deal with ties.......
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The willingness to give is keeping the local Habitat for Humanity chapter on schedule after $10,000 worth of power tools.......
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged her supporters Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast. The former first lady raced into a long West Virginia-to-the-West Coast.......
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates today and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the.......
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady. 'You know, my husband and I have been married 28 years and we have filed separate tax returns for.......
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Deere Flex Retirees are now living the nightmare of life without employer-subsidized medical insurance and drug plans. There is.......
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“In his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as.......
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For most people, nurses are the face of the health-care industry. Truth be told, the feelings most of us take away from nearly.......
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It's not every day that you see a Wall Street Journal columnist suggesting that Americans consider stockpiling food. But that’s.......
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NORMAL, Ill. (AP) -- Some students at Illinois State University are going to be paying a lot more in the fall. ISU.......
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- State auditors scolded the Illinois Department of Transportation on Thursday for poor.......
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CHICAGO (AP) -- R. Kelly's right to a fair trial trumps the media's right of access to sealed court records in the R&B singer's child pornography case, his defense attorneys said. Kelly's.......
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RACINE, Wis. (AP) -- A state agency reissued a water pollution permit Thursday for a power plant that environmental groups.......
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mayor Richard Daley is looking to the federal government for more money to help boost Chicago's ongoing battle against gangs and drugs. Daley was in Washington on.......
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is pushing to eliminate mandatory overtime. Union leaders say the overtime has been forced on.......
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A federal jury has awarded a black woman more than $380,000 in her racial discrimination lawsuit.......
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa's prisons are going smoke-free, despite an exemption from the state's new statewide smoking.......
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- Higher gas prices are fueling an increase in gas drive-offs in Cedar Rapids. Before gas hit.......
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Thousands of Iowa nurses are in for pay raises. The Legislature agreed to give medium and large.......
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OKOBOJI, Iowa (AP) -- The owner of an Okoboji marina who filed a discrimination suit against the former mayor and the city.......
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- A University of Iowa athletics board has approved guidelines allowing school administrators to.......
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BETTENDORF, Iowa (AP) -- Gov. Chet Culver today signed into law a giant $1.3 billion spending package that finances the next.......
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DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) -- The owners of Dubuque's only strip club have filed a law suit against the city. They claim the.......
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