by admin | Oct 31, 2006 | Politics & Government
The American Red Cross is changing its organizational structure, something a strong Iowa critic of the agency is applauding. U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says he hopes the effort to modernize the Red Cross from the top down will help it to better support its charitable...
by admin | Oct 31, 2006 | Crime & Courts
A Waterloo man is expected to be extradited to Illinois today (Tuesday) to face murder charges in the death of 13-year-old Donnisha Hill of Waterloo. Waterloo Police Captain Bruce Arends says the suspect is in custody at the Black Hawk County Jail without bond. Arends...
by admin | Oct 31, 2006 | News
If you liked their synthesized baroque concerts with scented smoke rolling off the stage, and their perennial Christmas albums in the couple decades after that, you’ll love the latest from Mannheim Steamroller — a holiday album for Halloween! ssmannx.mp3...
by admin | Oct 31, 2006 | Human Interest
Ghost stories abound during Halloween — but one central Iowa organization spends all year trying to hunt down things that go bump in the night. Joseph Leto is the founder of “DIEPART,” which stands for Des Moines Iowa Extreme Paranormal Advanced...
by admin | Oct 31, 2006 | Health & Medicine
An advocacy group says Halloween is the most dangerous night of the year for costumed kids to be scurrying around our streets. Alan Korn, public policy director for Safe Kids Worldwide, says Iowa children are four-times more likely to be killed in a car-pedestrian...
