by admin | Jul 31, 2004 | Crime & Courts
Earlier this week investigators found a starving cougar and the remains of four others on a Poweshiek County farm. An Iowa lawmaker’s renewing his effort to ban the ownership of exotic animals. It’s a matter of public safety as well as protecting the...
by admin | Jul 31, 2004 | Crime & Courts
A group of Cass County republicans has filed a lawsuit seeking to remove two top county officials from office. In a petition filed Friday in Cass County district court, seven plantiffs allege their fellow Republicans, County Attorney James Barry and Sheriff Larry...
by admin | Jul 31, 2004 | Business
Iowa’s wine industry has grown from 13 wineries in 2001 to 28 in 2004 as more Iowans look for a niche agriculture market. Mary Holz-Clause of the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center at Iowa State University says there’s room for even more wineries. But...
by admin | Jul 31, 2004 | Recreation / Entertainment
Thousands of bicycle riders in the annual expedition across the state will be hitching a ride home today, or leaving the state till next year’s RAGBRAI. Rider Jon Cook was among those who began last Sunday by dipping a wheel in water from the Missouri river. He...
by admin | Jul 31, 2004 | Recreation / Entertainment
A former eastern Iowa couple, now living in Los Angeles, are back home to show a documentary they’ve made about one of the most mysterious unsolved crimes in Iowa history. Kelly Rundle is originally from the Quad Cities area. Tammy is from Waterloo. Still, Kelly...