by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Crime & Courts, Politics & Government
Governor Tom Vilsack has asked Iowa’s Insurance Commissioner to review recent medical malpractice cases in Iowa to check on jury awards. Vilsack’s request comes after republican lawmakers sent him a bill which would place a 250-thousand dollar limit on...
by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
The Department of Natural Resources is assessing the damage today from an accidental spill of herbicide Thursday afternoon southwest of Shenandoah. D-N-R spokesman Kevin Baskins says the accident involved a tank being pulled over a bridge. He says the bridge collapsed...
by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Education
A new 200-thousand dollar engineering laboratory for testing structural materials will be dedicated this (Friday) afternoon at Iowa State University. Lab manager Doug Wood says the facility will become the new home for civil engineering researchers to put all types of...
by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Crime & Courts
A scam operator’s been banned from the state and fined after the operator of a mailbox store in the western Des Moines suburb of Clive helped officials uncover his plan. Bob Brammer, spokesman in the Iowa Attorney General’s office, says it began with a...
by admin | Apr 30, 2004 | Crime & Courts
A northern Iowa teenager is now jailed in a fatal Valentine’s Day hit-and-run accident.Hancock County deputies arrested 18-year-old Steven Gaiken of Britt. 48-year-old Bernard Anderson of LuVerne was walking toward Corwith on February 14th after his car got...
