by Radio Iowa Contributor | Nov 30, 2011 | Human Interest, News, Top Story
Oops! An Illinois man who reportedly doesn’t trust banks has mistakenly given away his life savings. The 80-year-old man, whose name isn’t being released, took a suit and other clothing items to a Goodwill store for donation. It wasn’t until some...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Nov 30, 2011 | Business, News
A Kansas-based company that owns four Iowa ethanol plants is buying a biodiesel plant in southeast Nebraska. Flint Hills Resources is purchasing the plant in Beatrice for $5-million. It cost $52-million to build the plant in 2007 but Beatrice Biodiesel filed for...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Nov 30, 2011 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
Plenty of deer get clobbered by cars on Interstate 80 every year, but a very rare type of deer was dispatched earlier this week on the roadway in central Iowa. An elderly man from Wisconsin was driving the car that hit and killed what may be the last white deer in...
by Todd Kimm | Nov 30, 2011 | Sports
A horrid shooting night led to another loss in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge for the Iowa Hawkeyes who made only 16 of 56 shots in a 71-55 loss to Clemson in Iowa City. It was Iowa’s sixth straight loss in the series and they are now just 2-9 all time in the...
by Dar Danielson | Nov 30, 2011 | News, Outdoors
State officials will continue testing deer this hunting season as they look for any signs of Chronic Wasting Disease or C-W-D in the animals. D.N.R. state deer biologist, Tom Litchfield, says they began looking for the disease that’s fatal to the animals in...