by admin | Oct 31, 2005 | News
Iowa State coach Dan McCarney says cutting down on turnovers has helped the Cyclones get back to their winning ways. After suffering through a mistake-filled three game losing streak ISU is now 5-3 after a 42-14 rout of Texas A@M. McCarney says nothing is more...
by admin | Oct 31, 2005 | Recreation / Entertainment
Iowa stargazers get a celestial treat this Halloween, with no tricks. Mars is drawing within about 43-million miles of the Earth, one of its closest passes in 60-thousand years. Christian Anderson, the space science educator at the Science Center of Iowa, says the Red...
by admin | Oct 31, 2005 | Human Interest
Some people call it the scariest thing in Iowa City. It’s a statue in Oakland Cemetery that most people call “The Black Angel.” The statue stands almost nine-feet tall and according to a spokeswoman for the Johnson County Historical Society, the...
by admin | Oct 31, 2005 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
Iowa public health officials say they’ve updated the plans for a state response should Iowa birds or people contract Avian flu. But Department of Public Health director Mary Mincer Hansen says it’s not time for panic.Mincer Hansen says Avian flu has not...
by admin | Oct 31, 2005 | Crime & Courts, Politics & Government
Iowa’s two U.S. Senators — one’s a Democrat and one’s a Republican — are offering different assessments of President Bush’s latest pick for the U.S. Supreme Court. But both say it’s too early to say whether they’ll vote...
