by admin | Sep 29, 2005 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin says he’s not happy with changes to a U-S-D-A program that pays farmers to take land out of production as a conservation measure. The administration proposal would enroll only 20-percent of the current Conservation Reserve Program acres...
by admin | Sep 29, 2005 | Business
A Midwest economist admits he’s not going very far out on a limb to say the two huge hurricanes that hit the Gulf Coast recently will have a negative effect on the U.S. economy. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says higher gasoline prices are just part...
by admin | Sep 29, 2005 | Crime & Courts
A Fort Dodge bank was held up Wednesday afternoon. The man held up the United Bank branch without displaying a weapon and left with an undisclosed sum of money. He’s described as between five-foot-nine and six-feet tall, wearing a white t-shirt, pajama-bottom...
by admin | Sep 29, 2005 | Military
While Iowa National Guard soldiers have been sent all over the world on active duty — a group of 180 North Carolina guardmembers are on active duty right here in Iowa. The North Carolinians arrived in June for a tour at the National Maintenance Training Facility...
by admin | Sep 29, 2005 | Crime & Courts
Two Hamilton County men are facing charges of first-degree criminal mischief after the water was drained from the city watertower last August in the town of Williams. 51-year-old Dennis Frayne and 29-year-old Terry Anderson were charged this week in Hamilton County...
