by Dar Danielson | May 30, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News
An administrator at Iowa State University in Ames is entering the final month of work that will cap off a half-century-long career. Warren Madden graduated from ISU in 1961 with an engineering degree and left to go into private industry. He returned in 1966 for what...
by Dar Danielson | May 30, 2016 | News, Recreation / Entertainment
Summer camps in Iowa have evolved to include more than canoeing and campfires. Linn County’s Wickiup Hill Learning Center is offering everything from wood carving to a camp that mimics the survival skills in the popular Hunger Games movies. Conservation...
by Matt Kelley | May 30, 2016 | Health & Medicine, Human Interest, News
A new report weighs the impact it has on a child when a parent is put in prison. In Iowa, some 58,000 children have a parent who’s behind bars. Michael Crawford, a senior associate with the Child and Family Policy Center in Des Moines, says when an adult is...
by Matt Kelley | May 30, 2016 | News, Top Story
The incoming executive director of the Iowa Police Chiefs Association is open to changes in the state’s marijuana laws. However, Sam Hargadine says his group won’t be backing or fighting any plans that would clear the way for the use of marijuana as...
by O. Kay Henderson | May 30, 2016 | Military, News
Three kids at Saturday night’s Iowa Cubs game were part of a welcoming surprise. “Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special treat for some of our fans this Memorial Weekend,” the team’s announcer said during pregame festivities. “The...