by admin | May 28, 1999 | Religion
Tom Carroll says coming from Notre Dame he is very familiar with highexpectations. The former Fighting Irish assistant takes over as the new headcoach of the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League, afranchise that has won four regular season, three...
by admin | May 28, 1999 | Sports
The Boys State High School track meet opens today in Drake stadium.Washington is the defending class 3A champion and coach Steve Roth says theywould like to win it again.Roth says being the defending champion does add some pressure.In class 4A, Ames finished second to...
by admin | May 28, 1999 | Human Interest, Military
Documents and personal notes from people who created the Vietnam VeteransMemorial of Iowa are being turned over to historians today in a ceremony.Members of the State Historical Society of Iowa requested the items tobetter document the monument which was dedicated 15...
by admin | May 28, 1999 | Education
Governor Tom Vilsack pulled out his pen Thursday and signed the remainingbills on his desk from the recent legislative session. The bills signedinclude measures to increase the quality of child care, require testing fornew teachers and improve the school readiness of...
by admin | May 28, 1999 | Politics & Government, Technology
The state representative who sent sexually-explicit e-mail to allone-hundred-50 members of the legislature says it was an “unintentionalmistake.” Representative Mike Jager, a republican from La Porte City, sayshe is not a computer whiz.The e-mail was a...