by admin | Jul 30, 2005 | Recreation / Entertainment
The annual bike ride across the state takes off for its final day today (Saturday) in West Union and winds up in Guttenberg on the eastern edge of Iowa. Nancy McClellan, one of the co-chairs of the Guttenberg RAGBRAI committee, says the last leg of the cyclists’...
by admin | Jul 30, 2005 | Crime & Courts
The city clerk in Swaledale has been arrested by the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Department and charged with first-degree theft. 26-year-old Stacy Marie Highley is suspected of trying to use 13-thousand dollars of the city’s money. Last week Highley...
by admin | Jul 30, 2005 | Crime & Courts
A man jailed for molesting his stepdaughter at their home in Griswold now faces more charges. When a fire at the family home killed two children, investigators zeroed in on 17-year-old Tracey Dyess. She admitted setting the fatal blaze, and told them she’d hoped...
by admin | Jul 30, 2005 | News
Iowa’s farmers are entering one of their busiest times of year, with fair season and the harvest coming up. The Iowa Beef Industry Council just wrapped up its summer series of training seminars and the council’s Brian Waddingham says the training’s...
by admin | Jul 30, 2005 | Politics & Government
This week the USDA announced that tests seem to indicate a third case of Mad Cow disease in the U-S, and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin says it’s clear the agency must do more to demonstrate it’s following a “clear protocol” for its Mad Cow testing...
