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CARROLL – The Audubon boys' tennis team have one more opportunity for competition this week, and that's at the Iowa Class 1A team tennis meet Saturday in Glenwood.
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Farmers should plant their corn by next week to ensure their yields are maximized, but wet fields have stalled their progress, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
ATLANTIC – The sudden storm that passed through Atlantic early Tuesday evening was brief, but it did pack quite a punch.
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CARROLL – The Audubon boys' tennis team have one more opportunity for competition this week, and that's at the Iowa Class 1A team tennis meet Saturday in Glenwood.
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Both the Atlantic and Audubon girls’ tennis teams had singles and doubles players who won at least one match at Monday’s Iowa Class 1A regional meet.
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ fishing report for the week of May 2, 2024 for southwest Iowa:
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Iowa state parks and forest staff are busy preparing for the summer camping season, turning on water, sprucing up campgrounds and freshening up bathroom, cabin, lodge and shelter facilities. W…
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ATLANTIC – Edward Miller and Oliver Deist each fired 77s, coming in eighth and ninth to lead the Audubon boys’ golf team to a third-place team finish at Wednesday’s Western Iowa Conference meet.
The Greely Tip Tops 4-H Club met at Twin Construction and conducted a short business meeting on April 14. Following the meeting, the club broke into five groups to create flower planters. First, the groups used drills to drill screws into wood to make the frame of the flower planter. Secondl…
The Audubon County Community Foundation awarded $143,342 to Audubon County nonprofit organizations and community projects during its Spring 2024 Grant Cycle.
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — FIFA has been told to reschedule its expanded Club World Cup just over a year before the tournament is due to be staged in the United States.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The first round of the Regions Tradition has started after a three-plus hour rain delay, the second straight weekend rains have impacted PGA Tour Champions events.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed a measure on Thursday to rebuild Baltimore’s historic but antiquated Pimlico Race Course and transfer the track to state control.
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — Vanderson Chaves has faced many challenges in more than a decade as a Paralympic fencer, but none as fearsome as the massive floods in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state.
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The Iowa Beef Industry Council and the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association are proud to announce the 15th Annual Iowa’s Best Burger Contest. Nominations will be taken from Monday, February 12 to Tuesday, March 12.
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Harvey Weinstein will remain in a New York jail as a court works out whether he should stay there while he awaits a retrial in a rape case, or be sent back to California to continue serving a prison sentence. He appeared in court Thursday. Read more: https://bit.ly/3UPRYwm
The family of a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was fatally shot by deputies who burst into his apartment in the Florida Panhandle say they want to correct a false narrative put forth by authorities about his death. The family of Senior Airmen Roger Fortson planned to view body camera video later in the day. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is representing the family. He says Fortson did not know it was sheriff’s deputies who were breaking into his apartment and that he grabbed his “legally owned firearm” to protect himself. The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office planned to hold a news conference later Thursday afternoon.
COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — Dangerous storms crashed over parts of the South on Thursday even as the region cleaned up from earlier severe weather that spawned apparent tornadoes, killed at least three people, and gravely injured a boy who was swept into a storm drain as he played in a flooded street.
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein will remain locked up in New York as a court works out whether he should stay in a city jail while awaiting retrial, or be sent to California to serve his prison sentence for rape there.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed a measure on Thursday to rebuild Baltimore’s historic but antiquated Pimlico Race Course and transfer the track to state control.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu minister on Thursday said his country will “stand alone” if it has to in its war against Hamas — threatening to deepen a crisis in relations with the United States. Netanyahu spoke after President Joe Biden said the United States would not provide offensive weapons for Israel’s long-promised assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Israel says that Rafah is Hamas’ last stronghold in Gaza and Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed to invade the city, despite widespread international opposition due concerns over the more than 1 million Palestinian civilians are huddled in the city. “If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone,” said. “If we need to, we will fight with our fingernails."
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (AP) — Vanderson Chaves has faced many challenges in more than a decade as a Paralympic fencer, but none as fearsome as the massive floods in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state.
The Vatican has crossed a key milestone in the runup to its 2025 Jubilee with the promulgation of the official decree establishing the Holy Year. Pope Francis is presiding over a ceremony Thursday in St. Peter’s Basilica for the formal reading of the papal bull. The event also kicks off the final seven-month dash of preparations and public works projects to be completed by Dec. 24, when Francis opens the basilica’s Holy Door and formally inaugurates the Jubilee. In the papal bull, Francis announces that he will also open a Holy Door in a prison, to give prisoners a sense of hope.
MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Ukrainian gymnast Mariia Vysochanska led a group of European athletes carrying the torch for the Paris Olympics through the Mediterranean city of Marseille on Thursday, in an important symbolic moment for her war-ravaged country.
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Once again, the situation has arisen in a nearby school district.
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Who’d have thought that a week after the NCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament ended, that the spotlight would still be on the Iowa Hawkeyes?
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There’s a number of of examples out there in sports over the weekend that redefined everything about sports.
