Emily Damari, the British-Israeli former hostage, described how a medic calling himself “Dr Hamas” sewed her nerves together while operating on gunshot wounds to her hand after she was kidnapped in the Oct 7 attack.

Despite its best efforts to get back in it, an early deficit proved too much for the Cherokee Braves to overcome in its Class 3A state quarterfinal matchup against ELC.

An alarm going off led to an evacuation of the site of the Iowa high school girls state basketball tournament Monday night. During the sixth of seven games scheduled for the day, a local fire department was called to Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines to investigate.