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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.What follows is a word to the wise. Whenever I drive up Brady Street hill in Davenport, Iowa, to the top of the bluffs,…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.In those quiet moments of reflection, sitting in your kitchen as the sun rises and the coffee finishes perking, what…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.What follows is the story of how Christmas came to the Illinois prairie in 1869, courtesy of a war in Europe.In that…

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.Among the many religious groups who arrived in our Mississippi River Valley after the Black Hawk War of 1832, each…

British filmmaker Ken Russell's 1971 film "The Devils" adapts Aldous Huxley's 1952 non-fiction classic "Devils of Loudun," detailing how an entire French city tore itself apart over allegations of witchcraft stemming from manipulation by the church and state.

The nearly century-old sports arena hosted the first official National Basketball Association game after the merger of the two former leagues in 1949. If the state approves, the district will place a plaque on the field house.

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island.By day, Lou Belby is a perfectly normal professor of Spanish and Latin American literature. Late each afternoon he…

Davenport Parks and Recreation is launching a weekly program with AmeriCorps called “STRONG Minds” to build relationship and communication skills for kids aged 12 to 15. The first session will occur on Tuesday, Oct. 13.

Monday means another weekend of religious services across the Quad Cities … has come and gone. This week, WVIK’s Joseph Leahy joined worshipers at Word of Life Church on 7th Avenue in Rock Island and has this profile in faith.