by admin | Sep 29, 2003 | Health & Medicine
The state health department has raised the number of cases of West Nile virus recorded in Iowa. Nineteen human cases of the mosquito-borne illness have been added to this year’s tally, in a dozen counties. It brings the total number of cases of the illness to 98...
by admin | Sep 29, 2003 | Business
The worst unemployment rate in the state is in Tama County. Judy Erickson with Iowa Workforce Development says the jobless rate skyrocketed with the closing of the Meskwaki Casino. The August rate was 14-point-6 percent in Tama County, highest in the state, and has...
by admin | Sep 29, 2003 | Health & Medicine
Would you give up some of the benefits your employer gives you if it meant you’d be paid more money? Nurses at the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City are going to get a chance to answer that question in a first-of-its-kind program. U-of-I spokesman Tom...
by admin | Sep 29, 2003 | Human Interest
A conference today (Monday) at Drake University put on by the Polk County “Families and Fathers Coalition” will bring social-service agencies and businesses together to learn how to strengthen bonds between fathers and kids. Spokesman Dan Raedeker works...
by admin | Sep 29, 2003 | Crime & Courts
A man who triggered an Amber Alert in Colorado ended up in Iowa were he was arrested. The state of Colorado put out the alert, after a woman in the town of Lafayette told authorities her boyfriend had come to her house and assaulted her, then took off with their...
