by Matt Kelley | Jul 31, 2015 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
One person was killed and two others injured in two-car crash Thursday in central Iowa. The accident happened just before 4 p.m. on a road east of Colfax in Jasper County. A State Patrol crash report shows a car driven by 32-year-old Mandy Matlock of Prairie City...
by Dar Danielson | Jul 31, 2015 | Education, News, Outdoors
The operators of the Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids broke ground Thursday on a building that is going to be the only one of its kind in the world. Nature Center director, John Myers, says they are calling it the “Amazing Space” project and it...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 31, 2015 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
A half dozen people delivered more than 5,000 petition signatures to the governor’s office Thursday afternoon, urging Governor Terry Branstad to keep the two remaining state-run Mental Health Institutes open. Branstad closed the Mental Health Institutes in...
by Dar Danielson | Jul 31, 2015 | Education, News
The search committee for the new University of Iowa president is getting closer to interviewing candidates. The committee is working with the Parker Executive Search firm and firm president Laurie Wilder told them during a teleconference Thursday they should have...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 31, 2015 | Crime & Courts, Human Interest, News
The Iowa Transportation Museum in Grinnell faces an uncertain future. A court this month placed the museum in foreclosure. Chuck Brooke, the museum’s executive director, says state and federal financing was lined up for the project a few years ago, but some...