by admin | May 31, 2001 | Outdoors
A 16-million dollar proposal to make Clear Lake clear again was unveiled today. Iowa State University professor John Downing worked with natural resources officials to come up with the plan. Downing says the proposal includes extensive improvement of Ventura Marsh...
by admin | May 31, 2001 | Crime & Courts
The Publishers Clearinghouse sweepstakes has lost its bid to keep its mailing lists secret.Iowa’s Attorney General has sued Publishers Clearinghouse, accusing the company of misleading Iowans into thinking their chances of winning would increase if they ordered...
by admin | May 31, 2001 | Crime & Courts
The state’s high court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of shooting his wife to death. Gerald Long of Des Moines was convicted of first degree murder five years ago for killing his wife, Jill, but the Supreme Court says he should get a new trial. The...
by admin | May 31, 2001 | Crime & Courts
The Iowa Parole Board has voted unanimously to recommend that the Governor commute the life sentence of a Clinton man who shot his wife to death 11 years ago. Shortly after he went to prison, Dennis Fredericksen had a heart attack. Before he was revived, oxygen had...
by admin | May 31, 2001 | Business
Officials in northeast Iowa are trying to keep a manufacturing business, and its 80 jobs, from leaving Oelwein. The owners of “X-L Trailers” say they’re looking for a more modern building for their operation. They currently manufacture large custom...