Stories from Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Since their soldier son's death by suicide in 2012, Lisa and Jeff Nastlund have been waging their own war - in hopes of preventing others from having to endure pain and tragedy as an aftermath of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This Memorial Day season, the couple has played a lead role in organizing Operation Engage America, a day of support and awareness for all Iowans, designed to connect veterans to all the services they may need...

After 10 years of fortunate weather, the Storm Lake Memorial Day ceremony was forced to move inside for the second year in a row. A modest crowd still enjoyed rousing music by the high school band and the performing group A Touch of Broadway, the placement of wreaths and the 21-gun Salute to the Dead, as the stalwarts of AMVETS Post #66 simply stepped out the back door of the school gym and fired off a salute in perfect unison...

Storm Lake Police were called to the scene of a stabbing in the 700 block of East 4th Street Sunday night, where an apparent fight over loud music left one man in jail and another in the hospital. Officers arrived moments after the report at 9:30 p.m. to find several people in the yards and street near the East 4th and Russell intersection...