by admin | Jun 29, 2005 | News
State officials and an Indy Racing League team joined forces to promote the ethanol industry and tout the fuel’s higher profile in auto racing. The industry sonsors a car in the IndyCar Series and soon there will be ethanol in all the tanks on the series. The...
by admin | Jun 29, 2005 | News
Truckers and state safety officials are pushing a campaign they hope will make holiday travel safer. The American Trucking Association’s “Share the Road” campaign seeks to get drivers of the big rigs — and those in regular vehicles — to...
by admin | Jun 29, 2005 | Business
The William Wrigley Junior Company says it has completes a 46-billion dollar deal to buy some food lines from Kraft that includes a candy factory in Creston.Spokeswoman Kelly McGrail says the acquisition includes the factory in Creston that makes “Trolli”...
by admin | Jun 29, 2005 | Crime & Courts
A judge has ordered that a 15-year-old boy stay in a Council Bluffs juvenile detention center for his alleged involvement in an arson fire at Audubon high school. Fire alarms within the high school were triggered early June 17th. When fire fighters arrived, flames...
by admin | Jun 29, 2005 | Military, Politics & Government
Congressman Leonard Boswell, a Democrat from Des Moines, says President Bush must share a most detailed plan about U.S. military operations in Iraq. “Last night, President Bush spoke to the American people. I, like most Americans, wish he would have said...