by admin | Jun 30, 2005 | News
Marshalltown native Jeff Clement is picking up a pair of awards this week. Clement was given the “Johnny Bench Award” Wednesday as the nation’s best catcher in the nation. He’s the first U-S-C catcher to win the honor. Clement hit 46 homes runs...
by admin | Jun 30, 2005 | News
Authorities in Dickinson County are searching for a missing boater in Big Spirit Lake. The Department of Natural Resources Kevin Baskins says a boat with three teenage boys capsized this morning east of Marble Beach. Two were rescued, the third’s still missing...
by admin | Jun 30, 2005 | Business
The investment group that first offered to buy Maytag for more than 2-point-one-billion dollars now says it can withdraw that offer, since the appliance maker’s been talking with other potential buyers. In May, Maytag’s board of directors approved a cash...
by admin | Jun 30, 2005 | Health & Medicine
State health officials say the West Nile Virus that’s killed 10 people in Iowa the last three years has been confirmed in birds in Clarke and Linn Counties. West Nile first appeared up in Iowa in 2001 with one case in a bird. State Epidemiologist Patricia...
by admin | Jun 30, 2005 | Weather
The State Climatologist says June was warmer than normal in Iowa and the average rainfall was only slightly above normal despite a deluge of rain in some areas and near-drought in others. Harry Hillaker says not all the data’s in yet, but it looks like the...
