by admin | Feb 28, 2003 | Uncategorized
The semifinals are underway at the state high school wrestling tournament. With a victory today, competitors move to within one win of the ultimate goal: a climb to the top of the victory stand on Saturday night. One of those who has waited the longest wrestles in...
by admin | Feb 28, 2003 | Crime & Courts
Benjamin Arends was sentenced by a judge in Marshalltown for the November 2001 death of his girlfriend’s toddler. B.J. Arends was sentenced in Marshall County District Court this afternoon on convictions of voluntary manslaughter and child endangerment....
by admin | Feb 28, 2003 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
Forget the Cyclones and all of those Big Ten rivals. The University of Iowa’s top foe at the moment is the tiny but mighty termite. U-of-I entomologist Bob Setter says the battle with the wood-eating bugs is ongoing and is costing the Iowa City institution about...
by admin | Feb 28, 2003 | Crime & Courts
Some airline personnel, but not pilots, are getting security and anti-terrorism training from an Iowa-based institute. Training director Mike Gillette at the National Law Enforcement Seucrity Institute says this week’s news that a test group of pilots will train...
by admin | Feb 28, 2003 | Military, Politics & Government
Two former U-S Ambassadors who now live and work in Iowa say war with Iraq seems inevitable.John Menzies, the president of Graceland University in Lamoni, was U-S Ambassador to Bosnia during U-S intervention in the Balkans. Menzies says he could envision a...