At 59, Bob Lehman ended a long and varied career in education when he retired in Iowa as administrator of the consolidated Ackley, Geneva, Wellsburg and Steamboat Rock Community School District.

Ted Paulsrud walked up to a soldier Tuesday at the Iowa State Fair. He held out a nine-inch stick of vacuum-packed Iowa beef and offered it to the man in uniform.

You've heard of Mike Mette, right? No? He's the Chicago police officer - now on unpaid leave - who is serving a five-year sentence at the North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City.