by admin | Jan 31, 2003 | Crime & Courts
Two Iowa City men have been charged with kidnapping a Cedar Falls couple in October. 34-year-old David Willock and 24-year-old Luther Hammett Junior were arrested on warrants for first-degree robbery, second-degree kidnapping and first-degree burglary. The two...
by admin | Jan 31, 2003 | Education, Health & Medicine
Students in one eastern Iowa high school will have a four-day weekend thanks to the flu. The Independence High School is closed today and Monday due to the flu outbreak. Superintendent Robert Stuermann says there have been more than 100 students absent each day this...
by admin | Jan 31, 2003 | Politics & Government
Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa City once worked for the man who’s at the center of planning for a possible war against Iraq. Leach worked as a graduate student intern for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld when Rumsefeld was a Congressman, and then Leach was a...
by admin | Jan 31, 2003 | Recreation / Entertainment
The jackpot in tomorrow (Saturday) night’s Powerball game is estimated at an even 100-million dollars, which Iowa Lottery spokeswoman Mary Neubauer predicts will bring ticket buyers out in droves. She says people have different levels at which they start to...
by admin | Jan 31, 2003 | Uncategorized
Continental Airlines this week thanked Iowa for its business, half a year after the carrier began serving the Des Moines International Airport, and just a week after announcing a sharing agreement with Northwest and Delta. Continental C-E-O Larry Kellner says the...
