by admin | Nov 29, 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...
by admin | Nov 29, 2006 | News
Iowans who haven’t yet gotten their flu shots still have time to get vaccinated and be covered for the season. State epidemiologist Dr. Patricia Quinlisk says this is National Influenza Vaccination Week, and while everyone’s scurrying to prepare for the...
by admin | Nov 29, 2006 | Crime & Courts
A federal judge has declared the government discriminates against blind people by printing paper money that all feels the same. You can’t tell a five from a fifty without looking at it, but Michael Barber with the National Federation for the Blind Iowa chapter,...
by admin | Nov 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
Iowa now has the second highest seatbelt compliance rate in the Midwest and the eleventh highest nationally. The governor?s traffic safety bureau reported Wednesday that 90-percent of Iowans comply with the state?s seatbelt law. Public safety commissioner Kevin Techau...
by admin | Nov 29, 2006 | News
Authorities have identified a man who disappeared while working on the Mississippi River yesterday (Tuesday). The construction company, E-80-Plus Contractors out of Madison, Wisconsin, was doing repair work to a railroad bridge that spans the river at Burlington....
