by admin | Jul 31, 2001 | Military, Politics & Government
A top veterans advocate in Iowa agrees with the recommendations of a commission chaired by former Presidents Carter and Ford that Election Day be turned into a national holiday. John Schneider, executive director of the Iowa Commission on Veterans Affairs, says he...
by admin | Jul 31, 2001 | Military, Politics & Government
An audit requested by Senator Charles Grassley has uncovered a string of questionable credit card transactions by Pentagon employees.Grassley says the audit found a five hundred dollar tab from a topless bar in South Carolina called the “Bottoms Up” had...
by admin | Jul 31, 2001 | Weather
Some 34-hundred Sioux City residents lost power for a time Monday as electric circuits became overloaded. MidAmerican spokesman Mark Reinders says there is enough energy if everyone will take steps to use the electricity wisely.MidAmerican and other utilities are...
by admin | Jul 31, 2001 | Crime & Courts
Wisconsin authorities took a teenager into custody this morning who is wanted for questioning in the shooting deaths of his father and his father’s girlfriend. The unidentified 14-year-old was thought to be headed for his mother’s home near Cedar Rapids,...
by admin | Jul 31, 2001 | Crime & Courts
Iowa’s latest case of a parent accused of killing a child -won’t- go to trial.A Spirit Lake man charged with murder in the shaking death of his infant son pleaded guilty yesterday to voluntary manslaughter charges in a plea bargain. Thirty-two-year-old...
