by admin | Aug 31, 2001 | Crime & Courts
A manhunt in Sioux City has ended with the arrest of a suspect in the deaths of seven people found murdered yesterday. The bodies of 31-year-old Leticia Aguilar and her five children were found around 6 o’clock last night. The body of 58-year-old Ronald Fish was...
by admin | Aug 31, 2001 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
A national report finds a dramatic reduction in injuries and deaths caused by airbags in recent years. Phil Haseltine, president of the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety In Arlington, Virginia, says Iowa’s record on airbags is particularly admirable.No...
by admin | Aug 31, 2001 | Recreation / Entertainment
A huge, antique carousel nicknamed “The Smile Machine” will be dedicated tomorrow on the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion grounds in Mount Pleasant. Lanny Elger of the Old Threshers Foundation helped raise the 700-thousand dollars to restore the carousel and...
by admin | Aug 31, 2001 | Crime & Courts
An eastern Iowa teenager faces prison time and stiff fines after a drunk driving wreck that killed another girl. 19-year-old Patricia Ann Schubert of Muscatine pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and serious injury by vehicle was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in...
by admin | Aug 31, 2001 | Education
More Iowa school districts are offering all-day kindergarten. In the past five years, there’s been a nearly 16 percent increase in the number of Iowa public schools with all-day kindergarten programs. Last fall, 305 of Iowa’s 371 schools had all-day...
