by Matt Kelley | Mar 31, 2014 | Crime & Courts, News, Recreation / Entertainment
An Oscar-nominated documentary about the hospice program at the Iowa State Penitentiary airs tonight on HBO. Filmmaker Edgar Barens spent six months in the Fort Madison prison to shoot footage for “Prison Terminal: The Final Days of Private Jack Hall.” In...
by Dar Danielson | Mar 31, 2014 | Business, News, Weather
The ban that prevents utilities from turning off the service to those behind on their bills ends Tuesday. The ban only covers those who are signed up for the state’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Iowa Utilities Board spokesman, Rob...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 31, 2014 | News, Politics & Government
The Republican Party of Iowa has a new chairman who vows to raise more money, register more Republican voters and maintain the first-in-the-nation status of Iowa’s Caucuses. A.J. Spiker resigned as party chairman to take a job with Kentucky Senator Rand...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 29, 2014 | News, Politics & Government
A man who says he may run as an independent candidate for governor in November confronted Republican Governor Terry Branstad this past Monday at Branstad’s weekly news conference at the statehouse. Mike Wedeking is a chef who owns a restaurant in Des Moines....
by Dar Danielson | Mar 29, 2014 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Outdoors
The emerald ash borer has been confirmed in Newton in Jasper County. That makes nine of the state’s 99 counties where the destructive pest has been identified. State Forester Mark Vitosh says the beetle has probably been around for awhile, but is just now being...