by admin | Sep 28, 2007 | Recreation / Entertainment
For more than a century, it’s been called " The Greatest Show on Earth ," but the circus opening in central Iowa tonight is a modern performance re-designed for the new millennium. Sure, there are still lions, tigers and elephants, but gone is the...
by admin | Sep 28, 2007 | Health & Medicine
The cryptosporidiosis case that forced a Cedar Rapids indoor pool to close this week is just one sign of a much larger outbreak in the area. The city’s Bender Pool closed for special cleaning Monday after a child taking swimming lessons was diagnosed with...
by admin | Sep 28, 2007 | News
Experts have confirmed soybean rust has reached Iowa cropland. Iowa State University researchers examining plants from a field in Dallas County — in central Iowa — confirmed the plants were suffering from a soybean rust infection. David Wright of the Iowa...
by admin | Sep 28, 2007 | Crime & Courts
A convenience store clerk in Carter Lake was shot and killed overnight. Police were called to the store just after ten o’clock Thursday night after they received a call of a person shot. Thirty-nine-year-old Robert Bates apparently called his girlfriend...
by admin | Sep 28, 2007 | Politics & Government
Low income Iowans can expect less money this winter from a federal program that helps them pay their heating bills. Jerry McKim is director of Iowa’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LI-HEAP. Congress has not passed the funding for 2008, but the...
