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The Other Names On the Ballot

Nov 22, 2008 1:32 am

CEDAR RAPIDS - Each time a voter chooses to write-in a candidate, the Linn County Auditors office has to mark it down and count it. Friday, the auditors office released all of those names. Some of the...

Cedar Rapids Animal Control Has New Temporary Home

Nov 21, 2008 11:00 pm

CEDAR RAPIDS- The dogs and cats chased out of the old Cedar Rapids Animal Control facility by flooding this spring now have a new place to call home. Or at least it's a permanent "temporary"...

U-I Asked to Cut Millions from Budget

Nov 21, 2008 10:17 pm

IOWA CITY - It's all hands on deck for every state agency to look high and low to find any extra cash. The most recent call to action is for the state's universities to trim a total of seven and a hal...

Iowa Telecom to Buy Sherburne Tele Systems

Nov 21, 2008 6:30 pm

NEWTON (AP) - Newton-based Iowa Telcommunications Services Inc. says it has agreed to buy Sherburne Tele Systems Inc. for more than $80 million. The deal is subject to regulatory approvals and is expe...

Court Rules on Iowa Medical Malpractice Case

Nov 21, 2008 5:30 pm

DES MOINES (AP) - The Iowa Supreme Court is sending the case of a woman who sued her doctors for failing to diagnose breast cancer back to a lower court for more proceedings.

Firefighters Discover Body at Spencer Apartment

Nov 21, 2008 5:30 pm

SPENCER (AP) - Fire officials say they discovered the body of Spencer man after an electric space heater caused a sofa at his apartment to start on fire.

UPDATE: DM Police Find Lost Child's Parents

Nov 21, 2008 5:30 pm

DES MOINES (AP) - Police have found the parents of a 3-year-old girl found in Des Moines outside without a coat and only one shoe. The girl was found walking Friday about 7:30 a.m., a time when the te...

Long & Late Fall Harvest

Nov 21, 2008 5:00 pm

Farmers in Eastern Iowa are racing against winter weather to get their crops out of the field. A wet spring delayed planting, and now a wet fall is delaying the harvest.

A New Way To Help With Snowy Sidewalks

Nov 21, 2008 1:15 am

CEDAR RAPIDS - Are you ready to get out those shovels? Last year the city had to clean about 150 sidewalks. They say that is twice as many as usual. With each walk, they charged the homeowner at least...

Supreme Court Rejects Forest City Woman's Appeal

Nov 21, 2008 12:45 am

CEDAR RAPIDS(AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Forest City woman who wanted a review of her convictions and sentences in the drug-related murders of five people, including two...

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Court denies defamation suit against Matt Wilber

Nov 22, 2008 6:11 am

A federal appeals court has issued a ruling in a case involving current Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber, who was sued for defamation by two men convicted of killing a Council Bluffs security...

SW Iowa Events

Nov 22, 2008 5:26 am

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Denison City Pound bursting at the seams

Nov 21, 2008 10:12 pm

If you find yourself in need of a heartwarming interaction - visit the Denison City Pound and chat with proprietor Jeri Dreyer.

Goodfellows campaign begins

Nov 21, 2008 10:11 pm

The annual Goodfellows campaign, a cooperative effort of West Central Community Action and the Denison Bulletin and Review, is beginning. The program helps fulfill the Christmas wishes of children fro...

Safe haven now for infants only

Nov 21, 2008 8:26 pm

LINCOLN -- A bill restricting Nebraska's safe haven law to infants no older than 30 days has been signed by Gov. Dave Heineman. The bill received final approval from the Legislature this morning on a ...

Cats, kittens confiscated in mill raid

Nov 21, 2008 7:41 pm

This mother cat was reunited with her two kittens after they were rescued from a cat mill by Pottawattamie County Animal Control on Halloween. A "Halloween night from hell" has turned into a...

Goodfellows: Woman seeks help for fellow employee

Nov 21, 2008 5:12 pm

Raising a family can be difficult, and for a woman forced by circumstance to do it on her own, the chore can be occasionally overwhelming. "There is a young mother of three little girls that work...

Numbers swell at shelters, meal centers

Nov 21, 2008 5:12 pm

Organizations that help the homeless and near-homeless are seeing a surge in numbers this fall, officials say. MOHM's Place, now in a new facility at the New Visions complex, is feeding more mouths, s...

Links to JEL's anti-tobacco program

Nov 21, 2008 4:41 pm

Drop dead, Lake View. That's not exactly the message of a new anti-tobacco billboard near the bucolic northwest Iowa town, but it's close enough, some community leaders said Wednesday.

When I grow up, I want to be a Teacher...

Nov 21, 2008 4:13 pm

"A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others." - Why did you want to work in education?

News from the Sioux City Journal

Dakota City man charged with kidnapping

Nov 21, 2008 6:51 am

SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa -- A Dakota City man faces kidnapping charges for allegedly taking a woman against her will from South Sioux City to Sergeant Bluff.

Two charged with child endangerment

Nov 21, 2008 6:51 am

STORM LAKE, Iowa -- Two people face multiple child endangerment charges after allegedly letting six small children stay inside a smoke-filled apartment in Storm Lake, Iowa.

S. Sioux students pack boxes for 'adopted' soldiers

Nov 21, 2008 6:51 am

SOUTH SIOUX CITY-- Tyler Rielly hasn't met the soldiers he's helping, but he feels as if he knows them.

City braces for winter

Nov 21, 2008 6:51 am

SIOUX CITY -- When it snows, city crews get out the plows.

Big Bird for president? Two thought so

Nov 21, 2008 6:51 am

A number of Woodbury County residents had their own ideas about who should be the nation's next president, and it wasn't anyone whose name was on the ballot on Election Day.

News from Eastern Iowa from the Quad City Times

Former Palmer prof wins trial for firing

Nov 22, 2008 4:32 am

A former professor at Palmer College of Chiropractic won the ability to have his case heard in an 8-year-old battle over his termination.

Festival of Trees begins in Davenport

Nov 22, 2008 2:57 am

Santa Claus visited with oldsters in the morning and youngsters in the afternoon Friday at the Quad-City Arts Festival of Trees.

News from The Des Moines Register

Mari Culver pays $50 fine for illegal smoking

Nov 21, 2008 9:59 pm

Iowa’s first lady requested and received a $50 ticket Friday for illegally smoking in a state-owned vehicle.

Orr named to top Iowa National Guard position

Nov 21, 2008 8:18 pm

Col. Tim Orr, an Iowa native with 29 years of military experience, was appointed by Gov. Chet Culver today as the top general in the 9,400-member Iowa National Guard.

Update: Parents of lost girl are located

Nov 21, 2008 8:15 pm

Des Moines police say a child who was found today about 7:30 a.m in the 900 block of Franklin Avenue had apparently wandered away from a babysitter’s home.

Obama to name NY Fed President to Treasury

Nov 21, 2008 7:41 pm

Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, will be nominated Treasury secretary by President-elect Barack Obama, the Wall Street Journal and CNBC reported Friday afternoon.

More federal charges brought in Agriprocessors case

Nov 21, 2008 6:42 pm

A federal grand jury has brought fresh immigration charges against five former supervisors at Agriprocessors, the controversial Postville meatpacking plant.

Memo: City might cut 90 jobs

Nov 21, 2008 5:49 pm

About 90 city jobs could be cut as Des Moines leaders wrestle with a shortfall projected to reach as high as $8.8 million.

Brazilian ethanol to sponsor Indy races

Nov 21, 2008 5:20 pm

The Indy Racing League has taken on a Brazilian ethanol producer as its major fuel sponsor, but the IRL says that doesn’t mean that Brazilian sugar cane ethanol will be in the tanks of Indy c...

Neb. lawmakers put age cap in ’safe haven’ law

Nov 21, 2008 4:38 pm

The surprising and seemingly endless stream of teenagers dropped off at Nebraska hospitals likely will come to an end Saturday.

Today’s Inbox: Stop the greedy thirst for more

Nov 21, 2008 1:09 pm

The concept of capitalism that made the United States great is slowly giving way to the notion that we need more, more, more. It’s called greed.

Firefighters discover body at Spencer apartment

Nov 21, 2008 11:59 am

SPENCER, Iowa - Fire officials said they discovered the body of Spencer man after an electric space heater may have ignited a sofa at his apartment.

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