Jim Winter

www.thonline.com — MAQUOKETA, Iowa -- A trunk, forgotten by employees at a Maquoketa antique store and lost to time by the family whose name adorns its side, is finally going home.

www.thonline.com — HAZEL GREEN, Wis. -- Hazel Green's police chief resigned last month after he came to an investigative interview under the influence of alcohol, according to the village's attorney.

www.thonline.com — When Andrew and Emily McCready each lost a grandmother over the 2012-13 holidays, the couple knew it was time to find a way to come home. In October, the 33-year-old Dubuque natives fulfilled a desire they shared since leaving Dubuque 15 years ago for college. They are back in their hometown, ready to do business.

www.thonline.com — DYERSVILLE, Iowa -- Everyone was a kid again Saturday at the Team of Dreams Spectacular charity softball game at the Field of Dreams movie site. The game, part of Mystique Casino's Island Fest and a fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project, brought together Hall of Famers, other Major League Baseball players and men representing event sponsors.

Telegraph Herald — RICKARDSVILLE, Iowa -- Corn waves in the breeze atop a terrace on Daryl Klein's property. A creek trickles through a valley nearby. Birds glide through the sky. There's no reminder of what happened on this date 100 years ago, when lethal violence enveloped the homestead here, just north of Rickardsville, and fire and smoke filled the sky.

www.thonline.com — Brittany Hammond can't help but feel she's leaving a family member behind. Hammond, who owns Java Dreams with her husband, Paul, will close the eclectic coffee shop at the corner of University Avenue and Auburn Street in Dubuque on June 9.

www.thonline.com — Business at Ground Round in Dubuque started like normal Monday morning. The cooks arrived at about 8 a.m. and started their day. Then, owner Jamal "Jim" Kharbush came in. That was unusual because he was off on Mondays.

www.thonline.com — The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that The Finley Hospital violated the National Labor Relations Act in 2006 when it discontinued pay raises for nurses that were provided for in the parties' collective bargaining agreement. On Sept. 28, the NLRB ordered Finley to pay back wages from the end of that collective bargaining agreement in 2006 to the date of the ruling and to start giving nurses their annual pay increases until the next collective bargaining agreement is reached. The current agreement expires on Nov. 7, 2013.

www.thonline.com — EAST DUBUQUE, Ill. -- Residents of East Dubuque will soon get to gamble, without having to cross the Iowa-Illinois bridge to go to one of Dubuque's two casinos. The East Dubuque City Council on Monday unanimously approved video gaming terminal licenses for seven establishments, which will each have two to four terminals.

www.thonline.com — The man sought in a robbery at Dubuque Bank and Trust on Tuesday afternoon is believed to be the same man involved in a series of bank robberies in Madison and Janesville, Wis., and Rockford, Ill.

www.thonline.com — GALENA, Ill. -- A Galena man is calling for the resignation of the management staff and curator of the Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society and Museum and its Board of Directors over what he claims was a poorly handled auction of some items of historical signifigance to the area.

Telegraph Herald — SAVANNA, Ill. -- A Riverview Center billboard outside Savanna touting the message "Creating a gay-friendly community" has been damaged a second time.

www.thonline.com — Planned Parenthood of the Heartland announced Tuesday it will open a new location in Dubuque, but the news has a local credit union facing a quandary. Planned Parenthood plans to move to 3365 Hillcrest Road, a building that had been owned by DuTrac Community Credit Union and the former home of Comprehensive Rehab.

www.thonline.com — BALLTOWN, Iowa -- Kay Neumann and her husband, Gene, had just passed a car accident Saturday on Balltown Road when she looked out the passenger side window and saw a bicycle tire sticking out of a ditch. After traveling a couple hundred feet, she asked her husband to turn around and go back to where she saw the tire.

www.thonline.com — EAST DUBUQUE, Ill. -- Earlier bar-closing times since May 1 in East Dubuque have led to decreases on two fronts: Crime and money coming through the doors of six bars. It's led to relief for the East Dubuque Police Department and the opposite for the owners of the bars, who claim reductions in business of between 50 and 80 percent.