An Elk Horn man was killed Thursday after he lost control of his motorcycle on an off ramp in Adair County, according to the Iowa State Patrol.

An Elk Horn man was killed Thursday after he lost control of his motorcycle on an off ramp in Adair County, according to the Iowa State Patrol.

An Elk Horn man was killed Thursday after he lost control of his motorcycle on an off ramp in Adair County, according to the Iowa State Patrol.

Today is Tuesday, July 21, the 202rd day of 2009. There are 163 days left in the year.

They make train robberies look so easy in the movies, don't they? You jump on to a train with guns a-blazin' and a bandana covering your face, rob the safe and jump off, never to be caught.

Send Yard Sales now It looks like great weather for yard sales is now beginning.

Main American diplomat, the first woman to serve in the post of U.S. ambassador.

The Adair County Band has teamed up with Rex's Cycle to host a motorcycle poker run this Saturday as a fundraiser to help send the band to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in November.

The heavy rains during the weekend and into Monday interrupted what has been exceptional progress in planting Iowa's corn crop, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Monday.

The heavy rains caused a culvert to collapse in Guthrie County. The culvert is considered a major short-cut between Guthrie Center and Adair, and is just north of Adair.