by Dar Danielson | Aug 31, 2010 | Crime & Courts, Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
The F.D.A. released inspection reports today that show numerous violations at Wright County egg farms that were the source of millions of eggs that have been linked to the salmonella outbreak and massive egg recall. The inspections were the first conducted under new...
by O. Kay Henderson | Aug 30, 2010 | Politics & Government
Republican Congressman Steve King says his Democratic opponent hasn’t earned the right to debate him face-to-face. Matt Campbell of Manning, the Democratic nominee for Iowa’s fifth district congressionl seat, went to King’s town hall meeting in...
by O. Kay Henderson | Aug 30, 2010 | Business, Politics & Government
Attorney General Tom Miller has returned a $10,000 campaign donation from a family at the heart of the massive egg recall ordered earlier this month. Jack DeCoster had been prosecuted by Miller’s staff and was labeled an “habitual violator” of the...
by Dar Danielson | Aug 30, 2010 | Crime & Courts
Iowa City police say their “Party Patrols” sent out into the neighborhoods that’re are close to downtown and the University of Iowa campus Thursday through Saturdays, have been successful in stopping big parties and disorderly conduct. The patrols...
by Matt Kelley | Aug 30, 2010 | Crime & Courts
A high speed chase in central Iowa early this morning ended with a stolen vehicle crashing into a pond. Chief Deputy Dave Herrick, with the Dallas County Sheriff’s office, says deputies were called at 3 a.m. to a Kum and Go store off Interstate 80 on a report of...