Waterloo native Robert Fulton, the shortest-serving governor in Iowa history, died Feb. 21 at the age of 94 in Minneapolis. Read through the obituaries published today in The Courier.

Today in U.S. 1813 - Fifteen U.S. gunboats engage three British ships in Hampton Roads, Va. 1815 - Trials of Fulton I, built by Robert Fulton, are completed in New York. This ship would become the ...

Two hundred and fifteen years ago this month, a sea monster churned up the Hudson River, forever changing the valley — and the world. On Aug. 17, 1807, according to one eyewitness, “A knot of ...