Stories from Thursday, August 11, 2016

Governor Terry Branstad spoke to a group of young entrepreneurs at Lakeside Lab Thursday morning about the future of business in Iowa. The speech was part of the 11th annual Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute's week of events. The institute develops the networking and business skills of 32 Iowa college students each summer in the Iowa Great Lakes Area...

The Lake Park Fire Department responded to a combine that caught fire in rural Dickinson County on Thursday afternoon. Firefighters were called to the scene around 12:23 p.m. No flames were visible, but thick smoke rolled out of the red Case IH combine upon arrival, as the machine sat on the west side of 150th Avenue about 7 miles south of Lake Park...