by admin | Feb 28, 2002 | Politics & Government
U-S-A Today quotes parts of an unreleased federal report saying deadly fallout from U-S nuclear weapons tests decades ago blanketed states like Iowa. The report says the radioactive fallout could be to blame in at least 15-thousand cancer deaths and 20-thousand...
by admin | Feb 28, 2002 | Politics & Government
The recession appears to be ending, according to a report issued Wednesday by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin says he hopes Greenspan is right.While Greenspan said the “recuperative powers of the U-S economy…have been...
by admin | Feb 28, 2002 | Recreation / Entertainment
You’d have to be at least sixteen to legally operate one of those new-fangled “Individual Transport” scooter machines — called the I-T or “IT” — if a bill that cleared the Senate becomes law. Those who ride the IT stand and...
by admin | Feb 28, 2002 | Crime & Courts
A Mason City woman is under arrest after allegedly assaulting the guardian of her four-year-old son, then fleeing to South Dakota with the child. Police were called to the Brick & Tile Building shortly after 10 o’clock yesterday morning after 37-year-old...
by admin | Feb 28, 2002 | Weather
March may arrive tomorrow like a -white- lion. The National Weather Service forecast calls for the possibility of significant snowfall in Iowa, with the chance of some areas getting six to eight inches. Meteorologist Miles Schumaker says cold air looming over the...
