by Dar Danielson | Oct 30, 2014 | News
The State Auditor released a report today on the special investigation of the financial operations of West Liberty. Deputy State Auditor, Warren Jenkins, says it was hard to figure out what was going on with the city operations because of there was no paper trail to...
by Matt Kelley | Oct 30, 2014 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
A woman was killed Wednesday in a traffic accident in eastern Iowa’s Jones County. The crash happened just before 5 p.m. on Highway 151 near Anamosa. According to an Iowa State Patrol report, 79-year-old Mary Goldsmith of Anamosa was driving a car and failed to...
by Matt Kelley | Oct 30, 2014 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
Railroad officials whose trains travel on several hundred miles of track across Iowa are urging hunters to resist the temptation to hunt on railroad property. Mark Vaughn, assistant general manager for the Iowa Northern Railroad, says walking on or near the tracks is...
by O. Kay Henderson | Oct 30, 2014 | News, Politics & Government
There was a collision last night between Joni Ernst’s campaign RV and a deer. Ernst, the Iowa Republican Party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate, was traveling in the RV with Arizona Senator John McCain and a couple of campaign staffers. The deer and the RV...
by Matt Kelley | Oct 30, 2014 | Human Interest, News
A new report from the Iowa Policy Project (IPP) finds many work-support policies for low-income Iowa families are presenting barriers to those families moving out of poverty. IPP research director Peter Fisher says the “basic needs” cost of living for an...