In Iowa City, the flood will come before the chicken. A split City Council, meeting in a work session last night, gave support to allowing people to keep a few chickens in their backyards.

The Owensburg-Jackson Township Fire Department will he sponsoring a 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, September 26th at 8:00 a.m. Registration will begin on Saturday, September 26th at 6:30 a.m. thru 7:30 a.m. The route will begin at the Owensburg-Hatfield Library and will continue through streets of Owensburg and end at the Fire Station.

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Burgin Fall Festival 5K/15K

Earnest discussions about hip-hop, humanities, neuroscience, and urban agriculture dominate this early fall semester week in Madison, with talks by Jeff Wang, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Davidson, and Will Allen, respectively. The calendar also includes live music by Shinedown, Japandroids, Michelle Shocked, Kyle Henderson's Blue-Eyed Soul, Mark Mallman, Big John Bates ' the VooDoo Dollz, and ...

Girls volleyball can no longer be considered a fringe sport in South Jersey. The rise of competitive teams from outside the sport's North Jersey hotbeds has given the Olympic Conference the ability to stand toe-to-toe with the state's best.

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Parks and Recreation: Comedy. 8:30 p.m. Thursdays on NBC. RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Community: Comedy. 9:30 p.m. Thursdays on NBC. There's a double dose of good news for NBC on Thursday night this fall and it's hard to tell which...

Danai Gurira's Eclipsed, about a sisterhood of women who are caught in the crossfire of civil war in Liberia, gets its West Coast premiere starting Sept. 13 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles.

Glenn Beck was mad. He's the right-wing talk-radio host who has a television program on the Fox News Channel. Advertisers were fleeing his Fox program...