by Radio Iowa Contributor | Oct 31, 2013 | News, Recreation / Entertainment
Officials who run the Clay County Fair in Spencer have unveiled plans to upgrade fairground facilities in time for the fair’s 100th anniversary. Just over 334,000 people attended the 2013 Clay County Fair during its nine-day run in September. That’s the...
by Dar Danielson | Oct 31, 2013 | Crime & Courts, News
A former Iowa State University physics and astronomy professor will not have to serve any additional jail time on a child pornography charge. Sixty-nine-year-old Walter Thomas Meyer was sentenced to time served along with one year of home confinement and five years of...
by Matt Kelley | Oct 31, 2013 | News, Recreation / Entertainment
The tasty treats Iowans throw in the bags of little masked Halloween visitors tonight may be helping to make their smiles more closely resemble jack-o-lanterns. Suzanne Heckenlaible, of the Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation, says some types of candy are worse than...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Oct 31, 2013 | Crime & Courts, News, Recreation / Entertainment
Sex offenders have been known to lure children in with offers of candy. But on Halloween, children may unknowingly be walking right up to the doors of sex offenders, asking for that candy. Iowa has no state law restricting a sex offender’s actions on Halloween....
by Matt Kelley | Oct 31, 2013 | Agriculture, News, Outdoors
The task of improving Iowa’s water mostly falls on farmers and ranchers. But a new report highlights what urban wetlands can do to improve the state’s water quality. The amount of pollution municipalities put into the state’s rivers and streams are...