Stories from Friday, October 24, 2014

From the beginning, it was clear this would be a no-holds-barred affair. For one hour Thursday night, Storm Lake was the center of the Iowa political universe, as incumbent Steve King and challenger Jim Mowrer traded sharply-worded accusations in the one and only debate between the combatants for the 4th District congressional seat. Issues ranged from immigration to Ebola, the Farm Bill to terrorism...

From the beginning, it was clear this would be a no-holds-barred affair. For one hour Thursday night, Storm Lake was the center of the Iowa political universe, as incumbent Steve King and challenger Jim Mowrer traded sharply-worded accusations in the one and only debate between the combatants for the 4th District congressional seat. Issues ranged from immigration to Ebola, the Farm Bill to terrorism...

CARROLL - Less than a minute separated two cross country runners from the state tournament. Thursday night in Carroll, several 3A schools ran for a chance to make it to Fort Dodge next Saturday. For Storm Lake they came close, but not quite close enough to make a trip east in a week...

HOLSTEIN - All it took was a run of 17 minutes and 33 seconds for Sioux Central Cross Country member Dalton Demers to qualify for state. To make it to state one of two things had to happen for Demers who had appeared to be sprinting past joggers in most of the northwest Iowa meets this year...

HOLSTEIN - History has been made all year by the Alta-Aurelia boy's cross country team. On Thursday night part of that history was extended. For a record fourth straight year the boy's cross country team will be going to the state cross country meet that will be held on the first of November. They earned that spot after finishing second at the state qualifying meet that had 29 teams and over 139 runners. Only the top 10 runners as well as the top three teams earned a trip to Fort Dodge...