by admin | Jul 31, 2002 | Crime & Courts
The battle over records from the Planned Parenthood clinic in Storm Lake remains at a stalemate. A district judge ruled the agency must turn over the requested records of pregnancy tests by August 17th to the Buena Vista County Sheriff’s Department. The records...
by admin | Jul 31, 2002 | Uncategorized
The former I-and-M Railroad is now under the management of a South Dakota company that’s gotten the go-ahead to buy and run it. Dakota Minnesota and Eastern railroad C-E-O Kevin Schieffer says there are still two railroads on paper, or three counting the...
by admin | Jul 31, 2002 | Business
A national survey ranks Iowa 44th among the 50 states for small business. The 2002 “Small Business Survival Index” compared states based on 20 factors including personal and business taxes, property and estate taxes, utility costs, and the number of state...
by admin | Jul 31, 2002 | Crime & Courts
An Independence woman who was scheduled to go on trial next month for killing her live-in boyfriend has entered a plea bargain.Debra Wierck was scheduled for trial August 14th in Buchanan County but pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of manslaughter and assault. She...
by admin | Jul 31, 2002 | Crime & Courts
The second man wanted for a late Friday robbery in rural Scott County is behind bars — and so is his mother. Twenty-seven-year-old Gordon Haynes Jr. of Davenport is being held in the Grant County, Wisconsin, jail. He faces Iowa robbery charges and Wisconsin...