by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
Picketers patrolled outside the state prison in Anamosa on Tuesday afternoon. Off-duty prison workers protested what they say are unsafe working conditions, claiming half the needed staff is there to handle the inmate population. Jillian Failee lives across the street...
by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Crime & Courts
The Cedar Falls Police Department now owns a yellow 2006 Dodge Charger, seized from a man who allegedly used it while trying to commit a sex crime. The vehicle was confiscated from Steven Kenney of Sioux City, who last month pleaded guilty to an enticement charge for...
by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Business
The Union Pacific Railroad says it’ll hire several thousand people this year. Spokesman Jack Koraleski says they need more people in part to help handle an influx of holiday merchandise shipped this month from China, Japan, Asia and other countries into U.S....
by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Business
The latest statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate the poverty rate is on the rise in Iowa. David Osterberg, executive director of the Iowa Policy Project, says Iowa’s economy just hasn’t bounced back from the recession that hit the country in...
by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Technology
Iowa leads the nation in ethanol production, turning millions of bushels of corn into millions of gallons of the alcohol fuel. Now a researcher at Iowa State University says they’re working to convert fuel ethanol to “beverage alcohol.” Assistant...
