by Dar Danielson | Jul 31, 2014 | Crime & Courts, News, Recreation / Entertainment
Casinos in Burlington and Dubuque received fines today from the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission for violations. Commission administrator, Brian Ohorilko, says a minor was challenged, but still allowed to enter and remain on the gambling floor of the Catfish Bend...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 31, 2014 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
A state facility that cares for Iowans with significant intellectual disabilities is being fined $2000 after a resident swalled three batteries. The incident happened June 2 at the Glenwood Resource Center. According to a statement from the Iowa Department of Human...
by Dar Danielson | Jul 31, 2014 | News, Outdoors, Top Story
State, local and national officials celebrated the opening of Iowa’s largest solar farm today. The farm is located in eastern Iowa about 11 miles south of Iowa City and six miles north of Kalona. Farmers Electric Cooperative built the facility and general...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Jul 31, 2014 | Crime & Courts, News
A northwest Iowa man who’s been held as a material witness in the deaths of his parents is now charged with his mother’s murder. Jonathon Neunaber of Akron has been charged with first-degree murder. Neunaber is accused of killing his mother, Esther...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 31, 2014 | News, Top Story, Weather
State Climatologist Harry Hillaker says this month has been unusually cool for Iowa. “Not all the numbers are in yet, but it looks like it will probably finish up the fifth coolest July on record in Iowa and that’s among the last 142 years of data,”...