by Radio Iowa Contributor | Mar 19, 2024 | Education, News
A northwest Iowa school district is working to change extracurricular policies after a hazing controversy involving the wrestling team that parents say targeted seven freshmen. Police investigated after a video on social media showed a wrestler from Hinton High School...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Dec 16, 2022 | Crime & Courts, Sports
Roland Story wrestler Kade Blume will not participate in any more extracurricular activities this school year in the wake of the 17 year old’s charge of assaulting another student during a hazing incident. The Roland story School District and the Blume family...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 7, 2020 | Human Interest, News
President Donald Trump has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Iowa wrestling legend Dan Gable. “No one has done more to promote wrestling in America than Dan Gable,” Trump said today. “He’s an athletic giant who conquered one of the...
by Dar Danielson | Oct 14, 2020 | News
Wrestling legend Dan Gable is going to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor. The Des Moines Register reports that Gable has received a letter from the White House that President Donald Trump plans to award Gable the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Gable...
by Dar Danielson | Aug 23, 2018 | Crime & Courts, Education, News
A former University of Iowa wrestler is sentenced to prison for hacking the school’s computer system. Twenty-three-year-old Trevor Graves pleaded guilty to unauthorized access and damaging the U-I network in 2015. Graves admitted to using what’s called a...