by admin | Oct 29, 2005 | News
An accident on a county road near Hinton has killed an elderly woman. A rural Hinton woman died when her car went into a ditch and rolled southeast of Hinton early Thursday night. Plymouth County Sheriff Mike Van Otterloo identified the driver as 87-year old Augusta...
by admin | Oct 29, 2005 | Crime & Courts
Computer-science Students at Iowa State University have been spending their fall term so far helping Iowa companies devise ways to fend off viruses and other digital attacks. I-S-U computer professor Doug Jacobsen landed funding from the National Science Foundation to...
by admin | Oct 29, 2005 | Politics & Government
Congressman Jim Nussle, a Republican candidate for governor, says he expected the oil industry to oppose his call for an ethanol-only rule for Iowa gas pumps. Last week, an Iowa spokesman for the petroleum industry criticized the ethanol mandate, saying it would cause...
by admin | Oct 29, 2005 | Politics & Government
The pheasant season opens in Iowa today (Saturday), and an expert with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources expects hunters to have plenty of targets. Todd Bogenschutz oversees the annual spring pheasant survey — which he says showed a 20-percent increase in...
by admin | Oct 29, 2005 | Recreation / Entertainment
Marion County residents will try to set a new world’s record today (Saturday) by racing Hot Wheels cars on what’s believed to be the longest-ever toy track. Randy Belding, of Pella, says the current record was set in Canada and is 16-hundred-50 feet, which...
