by admin | Mar 31, 2003 | News
Wisconsin did what it failed to do more than 20-years ago, recruit Lisa Stone. After three years at Drake Stone was introduced as the Badgers’ new womens” basketball coach this afternoon. She grew up near Madison but played collegiately at Iowa when she...
by admin | Mar 31, 2003 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
A 17-year-old Cedar Rapids girl has been arrested in connection with a St. Patrick’s Day car accident that broke the leg of a toddler. In the late afternoon on March 17th, three-year-old Brock Stewart was hit by a passing car in front of his home in Cedar...
by admin | Mar 31, 2003 | Health & Medicine
An eastern Iowa woman is the first person in the world to receive a new type of heart pacemaker. It’s called a bi-ventricular pacing defibrillator. The recipient is 64-year-old Marie German, a Davenport accountant who’s had heart trouble for a decade. Her...
by admin | Mar 31, 2003 | Uncategorized
The cable industry’s clamoring for a bill that would place new limits on what they say is unfair competition from city-owned cable t.v. systems. The bill would require Iowa cities and counties to pay taxes on the property and power lines used to deliver cable or...
by admin | Mar 31, 2003 | Health & Medicine
News reports about attempts to quell the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Southeast Asia continue to raise the anxiety of Iowans, even though health officials here say there’s no danger. Officials at the national Centers for Disease...
