by admin | Dec 30, 2005 | Human Interest
A house near the western Iowa town of Lewis, built in 1856 to help slaves fleeing Missouri find their way to Canada and freedom, is now itself in need of help. The home, built by Reverend George Hitchcock, aided fugitive slaves by serving as a safe house on the...
by admin | Dec 30, 2005 | Education
One of the big decisions facing Iowa State University in the new year involves choosing how the school will feed students. The university in Ames asked for bids on running its food service and received a bid from three outside companies and a proposal from the...
by admin | Dec 30, 2005 | News
A western Iowa man died in a work-related accident last night. The Carroll County man died in an accident at a corn processing plant. At about 8:40 last night, the Carroll County Sheriff’s office got a call that there’d been an accident at the Iowa Corn...
by admin | Dec 30, 2005 | Crime & Courts
A 49-year-old Cedar Rapids man will not go to prison for driving the speeding car that killed a 19-year-old woman crossing a street in downtown Cedar Rapids. The accident happened in July of 2004 and last month Larry Zaruba was found guilty of vehicular homicide. But...
by admin | Dec 30, 2005 | Crime & Courts
A group of United States Marshalls from Milwaukee, Wisconsin are in the Dubuque area today (Friday), helping one of their own search for his missing son. Twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kruziki was passing through Dubuque when he disappeared early last Saturday morning....
