by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 30, 2010 | Education
Federal stimulus funds are being used to bring more international students to the University of Iowa. U-of-I President Sally Mason says the university’s international student enrollment is jumping, from 30 undergraduates four years ago to nearly 500 this fall....
by Matt Kelley | Jul 30, 2010 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government, Recreation / Entertainment
The director of President Obama’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports is in Iowa this week, riding RAGBRAI and promoting physical fitness. Shellie Pfohl is a native of Dubuque. This is her fourth time on RAGBRAI. She says the annual bicycle ride across the...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jul 30, 2010 | Crime & Courts
A central Iowa woman accused of embezzling nearly a quarter of a million dollars from the post office is being sent to prison. Forty-seven-year-old Kimberly Sue Nordhagen of Indianola was a clerk for the U.S. Postal Service. She worked at the West Suburban Station...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Jul 30, 2010 | Weather
Parts of Iowa were socked with heavy rain again today, guaranteeing we’ll finish the month with one of Iowa’s wettest Julys on record. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says the precipitation numbers for the month will continue to tally up until midnight...
by Dar Danielson | Jul 30, 2010 | Crime & Courts
The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the domestic assault conviction of an Ames man, but also left open an avenue of appeal. Emmanuel Fountain’s girlfriend Levita Alexander decided she wanted to end the relationship and had come to the Ames apartment to get her...
