by admin | Apr 27, 2001 | Sports
The first full day at the 92nd Drake Relays is underway with nearly ideal conditions. Arkansas, making its first visit to Drake in 20-years, won the four-mile relay, but failed to break the meet record. Carroll’s Adam Huluska is a future Iowa State basketball...
by admin | Apr 27, 2001 | Education, Fires/Accidents/Disasters
Iowa college students or graduates who have student loans can file for a Temporary reprieve if they were effected by any of the recent natural disasters. Tom Bui is loan operations supervisor for the Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corporation.Bui says the payments can be...
by admin | Apr 27, 2001 | Human Interest
When J. Sterling Morton moved to Nebraska over a century ago, he began a national holiday that buds once a year. Today is National Arbor Day. Back in 1854, Morton, who was a journalist and a politician, and his wife were one some of the first settlers in Nebraska....
by admin | Apr 27, 2001 | Politics & Government
Governor Tom Vilsack says ethanol is the state of Iowa’s answer to rising gasoline prices. Vilsack says he’ll sign a bill that would give gas stations a tax incentive for selling lots of ethanol-blended fuel.If ethanol is over 60 percent of a single gas...
by admin | Apr 27, 2001 | Recreation / Entertainment
The Iowa Lottery unveiled a new scratch-off game today that offers as prizes, trips to tourist destinations in the state. Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer says in the past there have been travel promotions, but they offered winners things like cruise trips. She says...