by admin | Dec 29, 2000 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, Weather
One man is dead and another is seriously injured after a semi collided witha pickup near Stuart on Interstate-80 today. The accident happened justbefore 10 a-m when a pickup truck went out of control and lost control inthe eastbound lane of I-80. The truck went into...
by admin | Dec 29, 2000 | Weather
Record low December temperatures have had a chilling effect on theMississippi River barge traffic. The U-S Army Corps of Engineers says theMississippi is frozen from the Twin Cities in Minnesota to south of the QuadCities in Iowa. The Corps has slowed barge traffic...
by admin | Dec 29, 2000 | News
The federal government is investing $600,000 to study how to create a new type of stronger plastic from corn. Mike Stenzel, director of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, says it’s keeping in line with the effort to add value to the state’s top agricultural...
by admin | Dec 28, 2000 | Human Interest
A northern Iowa businessman with a colorful family history has died at age one hundred. Harley Ransom was the third generation of Ransoms to own a pool hall in Mason City. It was reportedly the inspiration for the pool hall featured in “The Music Man”. His...
by admin | Dec 28, 2000 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
Two trains collided in southern Iowa yesterday, forcing Amtrak to re-route its passenger trains. The collision happened just before 2:30 in rural Lucas County, when a train carrying dozens of cars of coal slammed into another train that was also loaded with coal. The...
