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

By ANDREW MCGINN a.mcginn@beeherald.com It was on a February night, more than a century ago, when the home of the Iowa Stock Remedy Co. — makers of a popular worm remedy for animals known as Iowa Worm ...

Special to the Jefferson Herald After years of planning and more than 12 months of construction despite some supply chain delays, the new childcare center at 306 South Vine in Jefferson is ready to ...

By BRANDON HURLEY sports@beeherald.com 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 Brandon Hurley Managing Editor news@beeherald.com A devastating and historic storm system left much of Greene County in the chilling dark for three consecutive days. Four EF-2 tornados and an EF-1 ...

By ANDREW MCGINN a.mcginn@beeherald.com Spenser Hardin once had the displeasure of being stuffed in a cubicle, that most ubiquitous of office configurations, whose design suggests, “We don’t trust ...

By Brandon Hurley Sports Editor sports@beeherald.com @BrandonJHurley ---Everybody enjoys a nice list. It often incites drama and debate. And in the business we are in, that’s a mighty fine plan. So, ...

By ANDREW MCGINN a.mcginn@beeherald.com At first, Ralph Miller was truly stranded in China as flights were canceled and borders closed in response to the pandemic. Then a weird thing happened. For the ...

A little more than four years ago - on October 2, 2018 - prominent Saudi Arabian journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, 59, was murdered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. Khashoggi had been ...

By ANDREW MCGINN a.mcginn@beeherald.com Editor’s note: This story is being reposted in honor of the 60th anniversary of Khrushchev’s historic visit to west-central Iowa. It originally ran in April ...

By ANDREW MCGINN a.mcginn@beeherald.com College bowl season is here, presumably much to the delight of the months-old sportsbook at Wild Rose Casino. But imagine turning on a game — take your pick, be ...

By Brandon Hurley Managing Editor news@beeherald.com @BrandonJHurley The greatest female track star in county history was forced to rely on her creativity. When senior year rolled around in 1975 and ...