The Urbandale City Council has signed off on a revised revitalization plan for Merle Hay Mall, with the amended application for funds from the state’s Iowa Reinvestment Act program now going to the ...

Born March 20, 1954 in Chambersburg, he was the son of the late Dale L. and Joyce Byers Brindle. Dale was a 1972 graduate of CASHS. He attended Penn State Mont alto and later graduated from Wilson ...

Merle Roger Witt, 77, of Arcadia, Iowa, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 ...

Before he became a musician, Merle Haggard lived the kind of life that's often mythologized in song: Hopping freights and doing prison time. When he became a star, he acquired his own observation car.

In the early 1970s, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard toured together and often ended up in close quarters, hanging out on one another’s tour bus, playing cards, talking about life and the music ...

BESIDES JAMES AND JERRY WERE FROM SCOTLAND, SO IT WAS SUCH A WONDERFUL COLLABORATION BETWEEN ALL OF THEM. AND THAT’S THE THING YOU’RE GOING TO SEE COLLABORATIONS OF YOUNG AND OLD AND ARTISTS ...

You never know when inspiration is going to strike, which is why Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard’s biggest duet hit came to be in the middle of the night in a half-asleep daze. Decades after ...

As the first Asian, and only South Asian, to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, Merle Oberon’s place in the pantheon of cinema is historic. But it came with enormous sacrifice as Oberon had ...

On April 21, the Catholic world plunged into mourning when it learned of the passing away of Pope Francis. This solemn piece of news was, however, not broken by any media outlet but by Kevin Farrell, ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo ...

A cardinal known as the camerlengo locked and sealed Pope Francis’ personal residence following his death at the age of 88. During his papacy, Francis lived in a small suite in the Vatican ...

Merle Ginsberg has written about culture, entertainment and fashion for Rolling Stone, W, WWD, the New York Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, L.A. Magazine, The Cut, NY Times T, and Town and ...