by admin | Dec 30, 2002 | Uncategorized
While the so-called football experts tout Thursday’s Iowa/USC match-up asthe premier game in the Bowl Championship Series, Iowa quarterback BradBanks maintains his low-key approach when asked if it’s the biggest gamehe’s every played in. Banks, the...
by admin | Dec 30, 2002 | Business
The state’s largest chambers of commerce are pressing the state to develop amore aggressive strategy to develop Iowa as brand name. Ron Corbett,president of the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, says no one outsideof Iowa really knows much about the state....
by admin | Dec 30, 2002 | Weather
Can you have a drought in winter? We may be headed that way, as stateclimatologist Harry Hillaker says the state is lacking in precipitation ofthe warm- or cold-weather kind. November went down in the books asfourth-driest on record, only an inch of snow on the...
by admin | Dec 30, 2002 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
A farming operation in northwestern Iowa was destroyed over the weekend. Ahog confinement building in Calhoun County was gutted by fire Saturday. Theoperation was owned by Dean Kaufman. When firefighters arrived, thestructure was fully engulfed in flames. Crews spent...
by admin | Dec 30, 2002 | Crime & Courts
Cedar Rapids authorities are asking for the public’s help to solve a24-year-old murder case. On December 19th, 1979, Michelle Martinko wasfound stabbed to death in her car, which was parked at Westdale Mall inCedar Rapids. Martinko was last seen alive in the...
