by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | Education, Politics & Government
Two powerful Iowa interest groups that tend to back candidates of one party over the other are both winners in the state budget deal reached Thursday night at the capitol. Iowans for Tax Relief has been pushing for the past five years to get lawmakers to erase state...
by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | Crime & Courts
Officials in northern Iowa have solved the mystery of the identity of a partially decomposed body found in a farm field near Armstrong. Emmet County Sheriff Larry Lamack says they were the remains of 18-year-old Zachary Hunter from Franklin County. The Iowa D-C-I...
by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | Business
The western Iowa town of Sergeant Bluff is loosing several hundred jobs. Spokesman Bill Kula says Verizon is shutting down its M-C-I call center. Kula says they’re informing employees in Sergeant Bluff that they’re phasing out the consumer and customer...
by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | Business
Union officials say some 70 workers are being laid off today at the Maytag plant in Newton. U-A-W Local 997 President Ted Johnson says the layoffs were scheduled before the sale of Maytag to Whirlpool. Johnson credits Whirlpool with trying to avert the layoffs....
by admin | Apr 28, 2006 | News
A press conference this (Friday) morning at the state Crime Lab in Ankeny featured a couple bashed-up trucks, and a message from Iowa Public-Safety Director Kevin Techau — pickup drivers have to wear seatbelts, too. “Why ‘Buckle Up In Your...
