by admin | Jul 30, 2002 | Uncategorized
The Girl’s State Softball Tournament got underway last night in Fort Dodge with the class 1A quarterfinals. Top-ranked H-L-V Victor defeated 17th-ranked Albert City-Truesdale 4-1 to advance to Wednesday night’s semifinal round. H-L-V coach John Prottsman...
by admin | Jul 30, 2002 | Politics & Government
Iowa’s lowest-in-the-nation Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors and hospitals are an issue in the third district Congressional race. Democrat Congressman Leonard Boswell says he’ll continue to press for reform. Boswell says the President and Vice...
by admin | Jul 30, 2002 | Health & Medicine
Story County has become the sixth county in Iowa to confirm the presence of West Nile virus. Ames city sanitarian Kevin Anderson says animal-control got a report last week of a sick crow and after it was picked up, the crow died. The bird was sent to the state...
by admin | Jul 30, 2002 | News
Another community meeting tonight in Adair County will review plans for a seven-thousand-hog operation in the area. Barb Kalbach is with “Adair County Families Against Factory Farms.” She says three thousand residents in Adair and Madison counties have...
by admin | Jul 30, 2002 | Human Interest
A Slovenian man who says he’s swimming for peace is attempting to become the first person to swim the full length of the Mississippi River — and he’s now off Iowa’s eastern shore. Martin Strell started his adventure July 4th at the headwaters...
