By DOUGLAS BURNS [email protected] U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, suggests gays won’t make it to heaven. What’s more, in an interview, King intimated that the divorced or cohabitators could be ...

By BRANDON HURLEY Sports Editor [email protected] @BrandonJHurley **EDITOR’S NOTE: The timeline of Red Wilson’s life was composed thanks to the help of the U of M Bentley Historical Library, Doug ...

By BRANDON HURLEY Sports Editor [email protected] @BrandonJHurley The world’s greatest rivalries often lay claim to equally as riveting backstories. In Greene County’s case, victory never sounds ...

As summer approaches, many of you kick it off on Memorial Day. For the soldiers of the 168th Infantry Regiment, it will be most introspective as they ponder their fallen comrades. This year marks 77 ...

By BRANDON HURLEY Sports Editor [email protected] @BrandonJHurley EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was compiled with references to the Smithsonian Magazine, the Des Moines Register, Thegreatautorace.com ...

By BRANDON HURLEY [email protected] EDITOR’S NOTE: For the sake of everyone’s sanity, and time, we have split the County All-Decade teams into two parts. This week, we release the boys’ All-Decade ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] On July 12, when the promotion company known as Iowa Chill sent word on Snapchat that River Farm Recreation west of Jefferson would be hosting a “foam party” on ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] The analogy that’s been used as justification to keep Jefferson’s historic Square intact is that knocking down one building, or two buildings, would be like ...

Global supply chain disruptions, rising prices for foods and farm production inputs, increasing evidence of agriculture’s impact on climate change, and unconscionable numbers of people experiencing ...

By ANDREW MCGINN [email protected] Well, so much for that secret, “mystic order” thing. Leave it to one of the Bee & Herald’s dutiful “correspondents” of days passed — those ladies who kept us ...

Special to the Jefferson Herald Connie Neese spent her entire life as a caregiver, first to her family and then as a nurse. After everything she has seen and done, she often points to the many ways ...