by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Education
Leaders of the three state universities are presenting their plans today to the Iowa Board of Regents explaining how they will deal with budget cuts. Iowa State University president Greg Geoffroy told the Regents his plan includes a reduction in the number of county...
by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | News
One person was killed and another injured during a collision between a semi and a car early this morning in western Iowa’s Crawford County. The Iowa State Patrol says 52-year-old Sandra Rogers, of Hornick, died in the crash just before 2 AM on Highway 59 about...
by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Business
The Des Moines-based Meredith Corporation — publisher of Better Homes and Gardens magazine — saw its third-quarter earnings drop by 45 percent, but that was better than traders expected and the price of Meredith stock soared. The company owns magazines,...
by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Health & Medicine
State health officials say they will learn today if two people suspected of having the swine flu or H-1-N-1 virus are actually infected. There is one confirmed death from the virus in the U.S. and hundreds reported in Mexico. State epidemiologist Patricia Quinlisk...
by admin | Apr 30, 2009 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin says Vice President Joe Biden clearly hasn’t done his homework on the swine flu. Biden told NBC this morning, he’s advising his family to stay off commercial airlines and subways, noting, if one person sneezes on a plane, "it...
