by admin | Aug 31, 1999 | Agriculture
With the harvest just weeks away, rail officials are trying to line uphopper cars to move grain. The division superintendant of the I-&-M Railinkin Mason City, Steve Norton, says he is preparing for an extra-large grainrush. Norton says manner farmers still have...
by admin | Aug 31, 1999 | Sports
Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz says opening the season against a ratedopponent is a tough challenge but his team is ready. The Ferentz era beginsSaturday when the Hawkeyes host fifth-ranked Nebraska.Ferentz says the team considers the matter surronding former...
by admin | Aug 31, 1999 | Business
A new survey shows fewer Iowa businesses are planning to hire new workers. “Manpower’s” survey of businesses in a dozen Iowa cities found 29 percentplan to hire new workers in the last quarter of the year, while 10 percentplan job cuts. That’s...
by admin | Aug 31, 1999 | Crime & Courts
The Ringgold County Sheriff says an autopsy found NO foul play in the deathof a Clearfield man. 46-year-old Lyle Leonard had been missing for morethan a month when his body was found Monday east of Mount Ayr alongside Highway Two. Ringgold County Sheriff Bob Bennett...
by admin | Aug 31, 1999 | Education, Politics & Government
The University of Iowa has won a 300-thousand dollar federal grant to helppart of the former Soviet Union become a functioning democracy. U-of-Ipolitical science professor Vicki Hesli says a partnership has been formedto exchange U-of-I educators with Ukrainian...