100 YEARS AGO: “Scarcely had the block recovered its customary serenity when Harold Bates’ car, stopped near Water Street, staged a runaway due to the ineffectiveness of the brakes." ...

For more than 30 years, The Ledger has honored the top scholar-athletes in Polk County and continues that tradition this year with an impressive list of 124 athletes who excelled in the classroom.

Straight Talk is a no-contract phone plan that shares networks with four major cellphone service providers. It doesn’t restrict people to long-term contracts, and it offers nationwide coverage and ...

Dave Foreman put words like biodiversity and extinction on the map. The former Tucsonan launched two groundbreaking environmental movements: the radicalism, civil disobedience and “monkeywrenching” of ...

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