The Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown has dedicated two memorial benches to Iowa National Guard Staff Sergeants Nate Howard and Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar. Both were killed in Syria last December. Ruth Roelsgard, Howard’s grandmother, said the Veterans Day ceremony was especially meaningful for her because she worked as a nurse at the home for 40 […]
Celebrated cartoonist Stephan Pastis makes one Iowa stop on 16-city book tour
One of the nation’s most popular cartoonists, whose strip “Pearls Before Swine” is carried in more than 900 newspapers, will be
