by admin | Aug 31, 2006 | Crime & Courts
The town of Wall Lake is working to smooth over some bad feelings about racist symbols that are all too public — a couple of Nazi swastikas on the town’s water tower. City Manager Tom Schoeder says the scene was set earlier this summer when someone was...
by admin | Aug 31, 2006 | Politics & Government
A 22-year-old eastern Iowa man who is a convicted sex offender has told authorities he’s living among the dead.Convicted sex offenders who’re out of prison are required by state law to report their living address to their county sheriff and David Eberle...
by admin | Aug 31, 2006 | News
A nearly-empty building in northwest Iowa went up in flames early this morning. Fire officials are investigating a blaze that destroyed a large storage building in Dyersville. Fire crews from four area departments were called out at about four o’clock this...
by admin | Aug 31, 2006 | Politics & Government
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold says the time for health care reform is now. Feingold told a crowd in Waterloo last (Wednesday) night that the Clinton health care plan was too complicated to understand or to pass. He said special interest groups hammered away at...
by admin | Aug 31, 2006 | Crime & Courts
A Keokuk businessman charged with taking money from a housing partnership may find his own home is a prison cell. A corporation bought the former River Hills Nursing home when it went under in southeast Iowa more than two years ago. One member, 62-year-old James...