Stacked Paragraphs After 27 years, it can be hard to pick your favorites, but here is some of my more recent good stuff. A special delivery: Love after tragedy brings baby into world ‘Reuben Spider-Man,’ 4, finds his way home with a little police help ‘An extraordinarily gifted storyteller’: Former Register writer Ken Fuson dies at 63 ‘The other Bob Woodward,’ a beloved Drake University journalism professor, dies at 82 Iowa World War II vet still finds joy of a hard day’s work slicing meat at 95 Ticked-off basketball fans led to the invention of first time clock for high-school sports Crime novels, comics, plays and movies: Prolific Iowa author Max Allan Collins writes them all How a California crow named Clover made Jenni Boonjakuakul central Iowa’s ‘bird lady’ From advice to recipes, Iowa woman retires after 70-year career as one of nation’s longest-serving newspaper columnists The day KCCI’s Weather Beacon went dark for good World Series: Iowa Hall of Famer Bob Feller reached his final Fall Classic 65 years ago Meet the Iowan the world just learned helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II A dirty hit, a broken jaw and the day Drake and Oklahoma A&M changed college football forever How 5 ‘mistakes’ by Iowan Ken Quinn ultimately made the World Food Prize world-class Iowa mom who lost son in Afghanistan copes by making masks to fight coronavirus spread Ballet performance outside senior housing raises spirits of residents quarantined by COVID-19 An Iowa couple with COVID-19: She lives; he died Betty Lou and ‘House With the Magic Window’ entertained Iowans for 43 years on WOI-TV Whatever happened to ‘Machine Gun’ Molly Bolin, the Iowa prep who signed the first women’s pro contract? Over 25 years into her softball career, an Iowa legend will play for Italian national team at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo That time an Iowa girls’ basketball star was drafted out of high school by the NBA’s Warriors Jean Seberg: Iowa actress robbed of Cinderella story by FBI harassment Pope John Paul II’s Iowa visit at 40: Untold tales of cracked statues, cigarette deals and a crowd-surfing baby ‘I’m glad to be alive, but I lost my husband’ BARBIE, KEN CALL IT QUITS Carlisle teacher digs into unsolved murder of officer March 15, 1993: The first paid paragraphs Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...
From advice to recipes, Iowa woman retires after 70-year career as one of nation’s longest-serving newspaper columnists
Whatever happened to ‘Machine Gun’ Molly Bolin, the Iowa prep who signed the first women’s pro contract?
Over 25 years into her softball career, an Iowa legend will play for Italian national team at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo
Pope John Paul II’s Iowa visit at 40: Untold tales of cracked statues, cigarette deals and a crowd-surfing baby
Daniel P. Finney 