By Alan Baldwin MONZA, Italy, Sept 5 (Reuters) - French Formula One driver Pierre Gasly upset the favourites to grab a stunning career-first pole posi...

Keelon Russell accounted for 335 yards and touchdown, and No. 13 Alabama opened the season with a 48-10 victory over East Carolina

Isaiah Marshall threw for 246 yards and two touchdowns, leading Kansas to a 51-6 victory over Long Island in its season opener

Jan. 23, 1934-Sept. 2, 2026 MARSHALL—Mass of Christian Burial for Donna Maeyaert, 92, of Marshall, will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 5, 2026, at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church. Visitation will be held on Friday, September 4, 2026, from 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. with a CCW Rosary at 4:00 p.m. and a […]

DEWITT, IA—Mrs. Darlene J. Yonker, 93, of DeWitt, Iowa, and formerly Marshall, Minnesota, died early Monday morning, August 24, 2026, at Maggie’s House Assisted Living, DeWitt. The former Darlene Joan Lemburg was born October 8, 1932, at Holstein, Iowa, to Herbert Wilhelm and Margearette Kathleen Minnie (Hoops) Lemburg. After a few years, her mother was […]

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and House Speaker Lisa Demuth, two candidates running for Minnesota governor in November, broadly agree that the state needs to build more homes to increase supply and slow rising costs. In-back-to-back interviews with KARE 11 on Wednesday at the Minnesota State Fair, Klobuchar and Demuth said addressing rising rents and mortgages […]

When I write one of these, it’s like sewing a rug. I take a bunch of ideas and stitch them together till I have a column that I can shake outside and put on the floor. Today, I have a lot of loose ends. These are remnants from our trip to Europe in June. Instead […]

In 2007, Hugo Chavez sent men with rifles into the Orinoco Belt. They walked into oilfields Americans had surveyed, Americans had drilled and American engineering had made productive and told ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips to take a minority stake in their own work or get out. Those two got out. Chevron stayed and ate two decades […]

In our local area Labor Day corresponds to railroads and Tracy’s annual Box Car Days. It’s a very appropriate connection because of how railroads shaped our region, its farms and our communities. Development happened quickly in the late 19th century. It was spurred by rail expansion. Our town street configurations were based on railroad designs. […]

SLAYTON — With the cost of housing inmates at the Lyon County Jail set to increase in the next couple of years, Murray County officials are looking for possible alternatives in the future. At this week’s Murray County Commissioner meeting, commissioners voted to have a building committee do an assessment of correctional facilities needs in the […]