by Todd Kimm | Feb 29, 2016 | Sports
It wasn’t pretty but it was a win as Iowa State celebrated Senior Night with a 58-50 victory over Oklahoma State. Abdel Nader led the Cyclones with 19 points and Georges Niang posted a double-double in his final game in Hilton Coliseum with 17 points and 10...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Feb 29, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News, Top Story
A northwest Iowa man may serve up to 50 years in prison for killing his mother. Forty-six-year-old Jonathan Neunaber of Akron pleaded guilty to second degree murder and willful injury this afternoon. He spoke in court about his crime. “I struck my mother more...
by Matt Kelley | Feb 29, 2016 | News, Politics & Government
Iowa farmers are getting a two month extension to file their taxes as lawmakers work to extend state tax breaks to Iowa small business owners and farmers who purchased assets in 2015. Farmers were facing a deadline of March 1 to file and pay their 2015 Iowa individual...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Feb 29, 2016 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
Authorities have released the name of a child killed in an accident Sunday in Davenport. It happened a little after 3 p.m. in the parking lot of All Saints Catholic School. Police say the victim, three-year-old Braddock Shovlain of Davenport, was struck by a pickup....
by O. Kay Henderson | Feb 29, 2016 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
Federal grants totaling $1.3 million are going to organizations in six Iowa communities, to experiment with health care reforms. Governor Terry Branstad says the goal is to both reduce costs and improve the health of Iowans. “Transformational change is possible...