by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 31, 2011 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters
Campers say the Sunday storm that killed a Cedar Rapids teacher in her tent at Lake MacBride State Park near Solon moved in very quickly. Thirty-two-year-old Jennifer Lewis, a chemistry teacher at Kennedy High School, died when a tree fell on her tent. Campers Marsha...
by Matt Kelley | May 31, 2011 | Crime & Courts
Authorities in eastern Iowa say a recent bank robbery could be connected to a robbery last year. Cedar Rapids Police responded to a robbery at Hills Bank on the city’s northeast side at 3905 Blairsferry Road NE at 5 p.m. last Friday. The suspect was described as...
by O. Kay Henderson | May 31, 2011 | Politics & Government
Governor Branstad’s aides have begun drawing up contingency plans for a state government shutdown. Branstad and his fellow Republicans in the Iowa House have been unable to strike an agreement on state spending with Democrats in the Iowa Senate. Dave Roederer...
by Todd Kimm | May 31, 2011 | Sports
Iowa State football coach Paul Rhoads says the Cyclones are at least a quarter of the way to deciding who their starting quarterback will be when they open the season against U.N.I. on September 3. Coming out of spring drills, the Cyclones had four signal-callers...
by O. Kay Henderson | May 31, 2011 | Health & Medicine, Politics & Government
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, a likely GOP presidential candidate, says “messaging” is important, and Republicans need to rework the way they talk about reforming Medicare. “There’s a few messages we need to transmit. Number one:...