by Dar Danielson | Oct 31, 2015 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
The Iowa City Fire Department says a fire broke out in the ninth floor dorm room in the Slater Residence Hall at the University of Iowa early this morning. The fire department says the fire was reported at 1:24 A.M. and everyone was out of the building by the time...
by O. Kay Henderson | Oct 31, 2015 | News, Politics & Government
Ten candidates seeking the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nomination spoke today at the Iowa GOP’s “Growth and Opportunity Party”. Jeff Kaufmann, the chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, believes a big share of the crowd hasn’t...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Oct 31, 2015 | News, Outdoors
Hunters by the thousands are taking to the fields across Iowa this morning for the start of the state’s pheasant hunting season. Jeff Barnes, a recreation safety officer with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, says there were two pheasant hunting-related...
by Matt Kelley | Oct 31, 2015 | News, Recreation / Entertainment
Many Iowans have fun at Halloween by creating scary haunted attractions in their front yards, often involving an prop cemetery, headstones and skeletons to frighten trick-or-treaters. Liz Dorland, spokeswoman for the American Red Cross chapter in Council Bluffs,...
by Dar Danielson | Oct 30, 2015 | Crime & Courts, News
The Iowa Supreme Court has ordered a resentencing for a man convicted of murder when he was still a teenager. Eric Querrey was found guilty of first-degree murder in 1992 at the age of 15 and was sentence to life in prison without parole. Querrey requested a...