by admin | Jul 30, 2005 | Politics & Government
Iowa’s Governor has set up a political action committee to collect money he’ll funnel to Democrats across the country who’re running for election this year and in 2006. It’s called the Heartland PAC. There’s already a website —...
by admin | Jul 29, 2005 | Politics & Government
The Iowa Supreme Court today (Friday) upheld a state law that forbids sex offenders from living within two-thousand feet of a school of day care. But Ben Stone, the executive director of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union, says the challenge of the law continues —...
by admin | Jul 29, 2005 | Crime & Courts
A Fort Dodge woman and her two sons are dead in an apparent double-murder suicide. James Saunders of the Iowa Department of Public Safety says officers responded to a 9-1-1 call from a neighbor’s home at about 5:30 Thursday night. “Upon arrival, they found...
by admin | Jul 29, 2005 | Recreation / Entertainment
The National Balloon Classic gets off the ground tonight (Friday) in Indianola. Classic executive director Greg Marchant says the have several special balloons including “The Flying Purple People Eater” and “Burgess the Penguin.” The balloons will make a mass assent...
by admin | Jul 29, 2005 | Human Interest
Western Iowans will get a chance to see one of the legendary steam locomotives of railroad history this week. Union Pacific Railroad spokesman Mark Davis says “Number 844” arrives in Council Bluffs tomorrow (Saturday). The locomotive, which has traveled...
