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In 1926, a group of Sioux City children grew convinced that a barn on the Lakeport Road was haunted. It turned out the barn was not in fact haunted, but was used for illegal distilling.

North Sioux City has blossomed into a retail destination for medicinal cannabis in years since South Dakota legalized marijuana for medical purposes. The Journal was given a behind-the-scenes look inside several of North Sioux City's cannabis dispensaries, and one of its marijuana grow-ops.

From February 1876: Everything looked favorable to a lively and destructive conflagration out at the Big Sioux bridge Saturday night, but it was very fortunately nipped in the bud. The fire was in Louis Bourett's hotel. His little boys took a candle and went upstairs to bed. They retired leaving the candle sitting upon the bed post, and a slight jar overturned it.

From The Sioux City Journal Archives: January 1951: A Sioux Cityan suffered a fatal heart attack while driving along Fourth Street in the downtown district Tuesday evening and his car smashed crazily into parked automobiles, damaging four other vehicles.

From December 2000: In the glove compartments or under the seats of many pickup trucks and cars throughout rural Nebraska is a worn booklet that curious motorists find useful as a map. It's a directory that lists local county license plate numbers matched with the names of registered vehicle owners. Motorists often grab for the books to find out who they are driving behind, who is following them or whose vehicle is parked outside a neighbor's house or on lover's lane.

From September 2000: Uncle John is moving ahead with a remodeling project that will triple the space devoted to dining and live music, owner Marcia Waitt said.

South Dakota billionaire philanthropist T. Denny Sanford has given $20 million to help pay for a new, indoor track and field center at the University of South Dakota campus in Vermillion. The facility will be called the Gassen Family Fieldhouse, named for Bill and Jill Gassen. Bill Gassen is president and CEO of Sanford Health, the Sioux Falls healthcare system named for T. Denny Sanford, while Jill is a physicians assistant with the VA Hospital in Sioux Falls. Both the Gassens are USD alumni and were on the college's track and field team, USD said this week in an announcement.

Bath & Body Works, the soap, lotion, fragrance and candle merchant, is preparing to open a store in the Lakeport Commons shopping center, its second in Sioux City.

The turreted house, which has much the same charm as the Smith family home in "Meet Me in St. Louis," has seldom been on the market since it was built.

SIOUX CITY -- A man identified only as "Ron" won the largest cash jackpot in the history of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, the casino said on social media