Action Jackson recounts biggest win in lawman’s now legendary career
On Aug. 30 of 2018, United States Senator Charles Grassley visited Corydon, Iowa, population 1,500.
He spoke to students in the high school library, wooden...
Kevin Cooney
For four decades, before his retirement in 2015, Kevin Cooney’s position as a KCCI news reporter placed him in correspondence with senators, governors, presidents...
Travis Wyman roams Yellowstone Park after pitching to Tony Gwynn
In the movie Major League, Tom Berenger’s character tells Charlie Sheen, “That ball wouldn’t have gone out of a lot of parks.”
The wild Cleveland...
Nash Cox finds his soul in automobiles, and his art, before it’s too late
At age 42, Nash Cox decided to become an artist. By the time he finished his first painting, he was by definition a professional.
“I...
Even within the herd, there will always be rebels that do not fit
Bob ‘Action’ Jackson’s time is no longer split in two. For six months, he would raise bison in Iowa. The other six months, he...
Reunite the Fight brings veterans back together on a Wayne County farm
This April, Wayne County served as a destination for veterans from across the country.
Some of them knew each other overseas. Others were complete strangers....
Rebecca Roberts brings Wonder to the students in her elementary class
Across Rebecca Roberts’ whiteboard, thread fashioned to look like black barbed wire is strung across photographs of the Holocaust and World War II and...
Paul Mitchell returns to heal the Lakota people with his testimony
Paul Mitchell was born in York, Neb., a full-blood Lakota of the Sicangu Nation. The French referred to his people as the Brulé, or...
Doug Thatcher releases book on Wayne County
Doug Thatcher grew up around a mile west of the Wayne County Home. From his parents’ land, he could see the brick building.
“It used...
Real life horror of the Great Influenza—and it could happen again
Near the end of World War I, an American soldier from Iowa was placed on burial detail. Yet this young man was nowhere near...
