by admin | May 29, 2009 | Crime & Courts
A split decision by the Iowa Supreme Court upholds a key ruling in a Des Moines kidnapping and rape case. James Effler was arrested in October of 2005 for taking a two-year-old girl into a bathroom at the Des Moines Library and sexually abusing her. Effler admitted to...
by admin | May 29, 2009 | Crime & Courts
The body of a former Webster City man who was wanted for the rape of a nine year old girl at gunpoint in Florida was discovered early yesterday morning south of Stratford in southern Hamilton county. Authorities discovered the body of 43-year-old Kevin Carroll...
by admin | May 29, 2009 | Business
Home foreclosure rates increased in Iowa again in the first quarter, with just over two-percent of Iowa home mortgages in foreclosure in the first three months of the year. That is higher than the last quarter of 2008 and higher than the same period a year ago. But...
by admin | May 29, 2009 | Business
A survey of employers shows the hardest jobs to fill in the U.S. are engineering positions. Dave Scott, executive director of the Iowa Engineering Society, says he’s not surprised. "Every year, we have a roundtable discussion where we bring in the...
by admin | May 28, 2009 | Politics & Government
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean says the "tide is turning" on gay marriage, partly because of the attitudes of younger Americans. Dean, a 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, was in Iowa tonight to speak at a fundraiser for "One Iowa"...
