Hawk Eye - Sat Nov 07

Matt Ryerson/The Hawk Eye James Madison Middle School employee Brooke Buckley, top right, asks her grandpa, World War II veteran James Darnold, a question as a group of students listen during a student council dance honoring school volunteer Ken Mitchell and other local vets Friday, at the school in Burlington.

Hawk Eye - Sat Nov 07

Nearly all homes that applied will receive funding. By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES ccrippes@thehawkeye.com The words "buyout" and "approved" have seemed unlikely to be united in a sentence and followed by real funding, since shortly after the levees gave way in the spring of 2008, in what has since been named one of the top five worst disasters.

Hawk Eye - Fri Nov 06

Laura Hopkins has experienced the despair of waiting to get compensation for her husband, Jim, until one day her request was approved.