A morning wave from Little Miss Iowa

Little Miss Iowa MacKenzie Wallace welcomes riders to Newell with three older generations of the royal family: great-grandmother Alyce Falkner and grandmother Midge Townsend, both of Newell, and mother Tessa Wallace of Sac City. Newell — Uneasy is the head that...

Rainy roads for RAGBRAI morning

RAGBRAI riders woke up to a moderate rain Monday morning.  And that rain is probably going to follow them all morning.  Allan Curtis with the National Weather Service said it’s one of those rains that’s going to follow them. ...

New RAGBRAI team of Muslim ‘female heroes’ gets rolling

Kulsoom Abdullah, a Pakistani weight lifter living in Atlanta (left), and Kiran Khan, an Olympic swimmer from Pakistan, show off their squatting ability with their bikes Sunday, July 19, 2015, during RAGBRAI in Washta, Iowa. (Michael Zamora/The Register) Most riders...

Legends of John Karras and fortune cookie

WASHTA, Ia. — The intersection of 330th and C 66 streets a few miles west of Washta doesn’t looked like most of the other turns along Sunday’s route. But Eleanore Lewis, who lives in nearby Correctionville, identified it was the site of RAGBRAI lore....