A Waterloo man has been charged with burglary after allegedly breaking into a truck and getting locked inside. Cash Burch, 24, was arrested Wednesday after the owner of a Ford Explorer found him inside his vehicle and called police.The owner, Mark...

A Waterloo man has been charged with burglary after allegedly breaking into a truck and getting locked inside. Cash Burch, 24, was arrested Wednesday after the owner of a Ford Explorer found him inside his vehicle and called police.The owner, Mark...

In Nigeria, people felicitate the successful, police open cans of worms on cutlass-brandishing miscreants, and the criminal rascals meet their Waterloo.Touts, urchins, and heaps of calumny: Nigerian English melds Victorian-era vocabulary inherited from...

A man is in custody after police say he set fire to two $10 bills in his elderly father’s presence. Authorities said Robert Allen Broderson, 53, of Waterloo, was arguing with his 98-year-old father over the older man’s retirement and stock funds...

Performance-based merit pay for teachers is a bad idea, Hillary Rodham Clinton told Iowa teachers on Monday. School uniforms for kids, however, is worth looking at.Merit pay for teachers “could be demeaning and discouraging, and who would decide” who...

A rogue cell phone is not accepting calls, but it sure likes to dial 911 operators in eastern Iowa.Operators at the Black Hawk County Consolidated Communications Center said that they received about 400 calls from the same cell phone last week and that...

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton marked Veterans Day by calling for new assistance programs, but said she would move more carefully than her rivals on dealing with looming shortfalls facing the Social Security system.Her move came as rival Barack Obama...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he no longer wears an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for “true patriotism” since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.He commented on the pin in a television interview...