by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Outdoors
Webworms are giving some Iowans the willies. These webworms have nothing to do with the Internet — they’re real live worms that build silk webs on trees. Iowa State University entomologist Donald Lewis says the fall webworm variety is quite abundant this...
by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
Four suspects are now in custody in the Quad Cities after the fatal shooting of a Davenport woman outside her grandmother’s Davenport home on August 19th. Several assailants fired multiple shots from a van, then sped away. The suspects are from the Illinois Quad...
by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Education
Improving high-school education could be worth 53-Million dollars to the Iowa economy, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education. Spokesman Bob Wise, the former governor of West Virginia, says grads unprepared for college have to take remediation classes. In...
by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | News
Officials at the University of Iowa are set for Friday’s rededication of Kinnick Stadium. Built in 1929, the stadium has undergone two years of renovation at a cost of more than 86-million dollars. Associate athletic director Jane Meyer said this week the...
by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
The teenage son of a prominent Des Moines lawyer who went missing late Monday afternoon has been found injured, but alive. Sixteen-year-old Matt Thompson is the son of Stan Thompson, who ran against Congressman Leonard Boswell in 2002 and 2004. Matt’s family...