by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
The former fire chief of the Webster County town of Otho is charged with murder in Arizona. Fifty-year-old Dennis Crouse was arrested Tuesday after his wife, 36-year-old Diane Crouse, was found stabbed to death at their home in Queen Creek, Arizona. Mr. Crouse was...
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
An Iowa state trooper and a Lee County sheriff?s deputy were honored Wednesday during a special ceremony at the statehouse. Trooper Tom Law of Burlington and Sheriff?s Deputy Bradley Roberts were both given the Sullivan Brothers Award of Valor, an honor designed for...
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Business
Early next year, some Iowans will only have to lift a finger to pay for their groceries. Ames and Mason City are test markets for a new fingerprint scanning technology that will deduct grocery payments from a customer’s bank account. Hy-Vee spokeswoman Chris...
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | News
Waterloo East high school football coach Charlie Aldrich has resigned less than two months after the Trojans snapped a state record 60-game losing streak. East athletic director Mike Allen says Aldrich didn’t say why he was resigning and simply said he was...
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
Prosecutors say Iowa’s tough law limiting where convicted sex offenders can live is a headache to enforce, but that hasn’t stopped one northern Iowa city from passing its own rule that may be even stricter. Mason City?s sex offender review committee has...
