by Radio Iowa Contributor | Jun 30, 2011 | Crime & Courts
A Mount Pleasant man, who could be connected to a missing woman case in the southeast Iowa city, is now dead after a high speed chase in Illinois. Authorities say 24-year-old Benjamin Biggs was found dead from a gunshot wound in a house near Kingston, Illinois...
by Matt Kelley | Jun 30, 2011 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, Recreation / Entertainment
An historic theater in downtown Cedar Rapids that was demolished by the floods of 2008 will be rebuilt and revived. Restoration work got underway this week on the Paramount Theater, which was built in the 1920s. Restoration committee chairman Jim Hoffman says this...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jun 30, 2011 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
After days of deadlock, Iowa legislators have backed away from a confrontation over abortion. House Republicans had proposed new restrictions to prevent all taxpayer-funded abortions at the University of Iowa, but Democrats in the Senate resisted. In the end, the deal...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jun 30, 2011 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
There may be a deal afoot to avert a state budget crisis over a dispute about abortion policy. Legislators must still approve the final budget bill which will complete action on the entire budget plan for state government for the fiscal year that begins tomorrow. But...
by Matt Kelley | Jun 30, 2011 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
A Missouri River levee has failed in far southwest Iowa. The levee breach near the town of Percival was discovered when the river level downstream dropped about six inches. Fremont County Emergency Management Director Mike Crecelius says it happened in an area that...