by admin | Oct 31, 2001 | News
It has been a roller coaster campaign for the Wisconsin football team. The Badgers have won at Ohio State but were blown out at home by Indiana and stand 4-5 overall. Injuries have taken their toll and Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez says it starts at quarterback where...
by admin | Oct 31, 2001 | Education, Outdoors
A northwest Iowa school district has become the first in the state, and possibly the nation, to get all its power from wind. Officials from the Spirit Lake School District dedicated a 780-thousand dollar wind turbine today. Superintendent Tim Grieves says there were...
by admin | Oct 31, 2001 | Politics & Government
The F-A-A is out with a new temporary ban on some flying activities. They’re called “NOTAMs”, Notices to Airmen, and the latest bans any private aircraft from flying within ten miles of a nuclear power plant. Iowa’s Palo nuclear power plant is...
by admin | Oct 31, 2001 | Health & Medicine
An expert on the impact of trauma on children says kids are durable, but parents need to be calm as the threat of terrorism hangs over the nation. James Garbarino spoke today in Des Moines at a forum on Iowa’s mental health system.Garbarino says kids...
by admin | Oct 31, 2001 | Crime & Courts
State troopers have made three marijuana busts in the past few weeks. The biggest was yesterday in southwest Iowa with a haul worth more than a half-million dollars. Highway Patrol spokesman Sergeant Rob Hansen says a trooper in Cass County happened across a motor...
