by admin | Oct 28, 2005 | Crime & Courts, Education
The Waterloo Police Department and Waterloo Community Schools are partnering in a program that’ll be taught in the middle schools. Police chief Tom Jennings says “W-P-D and Me” will bring police officers into the classroom to talk about the all...
by admin | Oct 28, 2005 | Crime & Courts
An eastern Iowa man is facing some 17 years behind bars after his sentencing this week on child pornography charges. Mike Winkel had been charged with distribution and possession of child pornography after an investigation involving the U.S. Postal Service, U.S....
by admin | Oct 28, 2005 | Health & Medicine
More than 400 patients who’ve received bone marrow or blood stem cell transplants through the University of Iowa Hospitals will meet the donors today (Friday) in Iowa City. Colleen Chapleau, associate director of the Iowa Marrow Donor Program, says the event is...
by admin | Oct 28, 2005 | Politics & Government
New York Governor George Pataki — a potential presidential candidate in 2008 — is in the state thanking Iowans who volunteered in New York City after September 11th, and he’s also helping local Republicans raise money. “This year and then...
by admin | Oct 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
Several hundred Iowans must have way too much money — as they never bothered to cash their federal tax refund checks this year. Christoper Miller, a spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service, says the agency is holding checks for 384 Iowans that were, for...