by admin | Nov 30, 2002 | News
Five decades ago, Iowa had a thriving grape-growing industry which some say can be revived. The Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development Office in the western Iowa town of Oakland has hired a viticulture technician. Eli Bergmeier says his job is to help all...
by admin | Nov 29, 2002 | Crime & Courts, Fires/Accidents/Disasters
A second northeast Iowa man is charged in connection with the death of aCedar Falls man in September. Cedar Falls police charged 20-year old AndrewSchmitt with involuntary manslaughter. Schmitt was racing his car against acar driven by Charles Waychoff of Waterloo on...
by admin | Nov 29, 2002 | Human Interest
A speedy release is very unlikely now for a nurse from northeast Iowa heldin Indonesia, and suffering from H-I-V. The Indonesian judge handling thecase involving 57-year old Joy Lee Sadler of Waterloo and British researcherLesley Jane McCulloch says Wednesday’s...
by admin | Nov 29, 2002 | Crime & Courts
The fate of two men critically injured in an explosion at a Newton meth labthis week is still not clear. But Dale Woolery, the acting director of thegovernor’s office of drug-control policy, says the state is still seeing anexplosion in the number of meth labs...
by admin | Nov 29, 2002 | Human Interest
Governor Tom Vilsack granted a pardon to two Toms who were on his lawnWednesday morning. Vilsack says President Harry Truman started the traditionof pardoning the turkey he’d been presented for Thanksgiving dinner. Vilsacksays the yearly event gives him a chance...
