by admin | Mar 30, 2007 | Business
Iowa’s unemployment in February dipped to 3.3 percent. The January rate was 3.4 percent, a year ago Iowa’s jobless figure was 3.9 percent in February. Over the year, state labor market analyst Ann Wagner says the...
by admin | Mar 30, 2007 | Health & Medicine
The widow of NBC news correspondent David Bloom is telling Iowans about the medical condition that killed her husband. David Bloom was covering the war in Iraq when he died suddenly in April of 2003 from complications related to what’s called deep-vein...
by admin | Mar 30, 2007 | News
A downtown street in the capital city was cordoned off for a time Thursday afternoon. Des Moines Fire Department spokesman, Brian O’Keefe, says a worker at a big insurance company sparked an alert. Shortly after noon, an employee at ING found a small zip-lock...
by admin | Mar 29, 2007 | Crime & Courts
A jury in western Iowa Wednesday awarded nearly $200,000 in damages to a Montgomery County couple injured in a crash in 2003. The case involving Stanton residents Venice Marlene Kennon and Richard Kennon stems from an incident that occurred August 30th 2003, on...
by admin | Mar 29, 2007 | Politics & Government
A state senator from Des Moines is pleading not guilty to extortion charges. Senator Matt McCoy, a 40-year-old Democrat, is accused of threatening to derail a security firm’s state contract. McCoy, with his lawyer at his side, spoke with reporters outside the...
