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The State of Iowa is a state in the midwestern region of the United States of America. It is the 29th state of the United States, having joined the Union on December 28, 1846. The state is named for the Native American Ioway people. It is known as the "Hawkeye State" or the "Tall Corn State".

 

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Local News from KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids via Yahoo! News

Emmetsburg Woman Accused in Mortgage Scam

Oct 15, 2008 7:14 pm

EMMETSBURG (AP) - An Emmetsburg woman has been arrested for allegedly running a mortgage scam out of her home. Terry Hoffert is charged with two counts of first-degree theft and one count of ongoing c...

 

Little Change in Iowa Politics Despite Work, Money

Oct 15, 2008 7:13 pm

DES MOINES (AP) - After millions of dollars and months of hard work, strategists from both parties say Iowa's political landscape has barely budged as the election nears.

 

Cedar Rapids to Begin Dozens of House Demolitions

Oct 15, 2008 4:43 pm

CEDAR RAPIDS - Cedar Rapids will begin tearing down flood-damaged properties later this month. This involves 71 houses that city inspectors deemed unsafe to live in and that pose a health and safety r...

 

Dubuque Volunteers Heading to Haiti for Hurricane Relief

Oct 15, 2008 4:13 pm

DUBUQUE - Mountaintop Ministries in Dubuque is helping hurricane victims in the Caribbean. The island country of Haiti has been hit by 5 hurricanes in the 2008 season.

 

SBA Won't Change Disaster Loan Rules for Iowa Businesses

Oct 15, 2008 3:58 pm

DES MOINES - The Small Business Administration says it's looked over its policies and will not change the rules for dozens of Iowa businesses that it refused to give low interest loans.

 

State Investigating Crowne Plaza, But Ask For More Employee Help

Oct 15, 2008 4:28 am

CEDAR RAPIDS - The state is starting to look into the situation at the Crowne Plaza Five Seasons hotel in Cedar Rapids. Since last spring, KCRG-TV9 reported numerous financial problems at the downtown...

 

C.R. Contractors Say Building Owners Aren't Paying Up

Oct 15, 2008 4:13 am

CEDAR RAPIDS - For more than a month Rick Chesmore worked with Hanson Drywall at the Town Centre building at Third Avenue and Third Street in downtown.

 

First Organized Opposition Against Flood Protection Options

Oct 15, 2008 1:43 am

CEDAR RAPIDS -- The city of Cedar Rapids recently revealed a preliminary plan to protect the city from a future flood. Now, for the first time, hundreds of people are standing up and demanding officia...

 

Man Blinded by Punch at Sioux City Bar

Oct 14, 2008 11:43 pm

SIOUX CITY (AP) - Police say a Lawton man has been blinded after taking a punch in the eye for the second time in three months - at the same bar. Sioux City Police Sgt. Tony Sunclades says 48-year-old...

 

Emergency Assistance Program for Needy Running Short of Funds

Oct 14, 2008 11:13 pm

CEDAR RAPIDS- A program that provides a "helping hand" to those in need could use some financial help itself this month. More than two dozen Linn County churches support the Helping Hands Mi...

 
 

Local News from Southwest Iowa News via Yahoo! News

Greetings from Elk Horn!

Oct 15, 2008 6:46 pm

Staff photo/Lindsay Blake - This Danish Windmill was built in Denmark in 1848 and torn down in 1975 to be shipped to Elk Horn. Three hundred volunteers helped rebuild the windmill that now stands alon...

 

Board ponders sixth grade move

Oct 15, 2008 5:01 pm

The decision on whether or not to move Council Bluffs Community School District sixth-graders into the junior high system may be two weeks away.

 

Ways to improve Manawa discussed

Oct 15, 2008 5:01 pm

There are many ways to improve the clarity and quality of Lake Manawa, area residents were told Tuesday evening. What's more, a new campground on the northern edge of the lake is being proposed.

 

9-year-old boy struck by vehicle Tuesday

Oct 15, 2008 5:01 pm

Council Bluffs police reports indicated officers responded to the 200 block of South Eighth Street at 3:45 p.m. for a child hit by a vehicle. Elizabeth Christo, 25, was driving a 1997 Pontiac Grand Am...

 

Heavens! Suit against God tossed out

Oct 15, 2008 2:31 pm

You can't sue God if you can't serve the papers on him, a Douglas County District Court judge ruled in Omaha Tuesday. Judge Marlon Polk threw out Nebraska Sen. Ernie Chambers' lawsuit against the Almi...

 

Political polling gave Shenandoah company its start

Oct 15, 2008 2:16 pm

Shenandoah has had its fair share of entrepreneurs, but none can hold a candle in the political world to Charles Parker, founder of Central Surveys.

 

Coin man charged with UAP vandalism

Oct 15, 2008 1:31 pm

A Coin man was arrested Saturday in connection with the Sept. 28 vandalism at UAP in Coin in which an estimated $50,000 worth of damages took place. Page County Sheriff deputies arrested 43-year-old T...

 

School board denies request

Oct 15, 2008 1:31 pm

Emotions ran high Monday evening when two Essex parents asked the Shenandoah School Board to allow Essex school buses to drive half a mile into Shenandoah's district to pick up their children.

 

SW Iowa Events

Oct 15, 2008 4:16 am

approximately every other month, as scheduled. Fridays during Lent. Meetings every 3rd Thursday except Dec.

 

Digital technology links county, state, and FBI

Oct 14, 2008 8:16 pm

According to Rod Bradley, Denison Chief of Police, a "neat piece of technology was installed in the new jail - a digital fingerprint and photography machine."

 
 

News from the Sioux City Journal

Spirit Lake School trial delayed

Oct 15, 2008 7:25 am

SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa -- A trial scheduled for Tuesday in Dickinson County District Court seeking the dismissal of two Spirit Lake school board members was suspended after consultations in the judge?s cha...

 

Sleep-out to raise funds for homeless

Oct 15, 2008 7:25 am

SIOUX CITY -- Siouxlanders will get a small taste of what it's like to be homeless when they curl up in sleeping bags and hunker down in cardboard boxes Nov. 7 at Lewis and Clark Park during the Fourt...

 

Pipeline task force to meet Oct. 23

Oct 15, 2008 7:25 am

PIERRE, S.D. n The South Dakota Underground Pipeline Task Force will meet for a third time at 9 a.m. on Oct. 23, at the Matthew Environmental Education and Training Center in Pierre. It will report it...

 

State commision approves widening half of U.S. 20

Oct 15, 2008 7:25 am

The Iowa Transportation Commission on Tuesday committed to widening half the mileage of U.S. Highway 20 with two lanes to four lanes by 2013.

 
 

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