by Radio Iowa Contributor | Nov 29, 2011 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Politics & Government
A weekend fire has left the northwest Iowa town of Hull without a city office building. The Hull city office building and an attached shop sustained heavy damage in a fire on Saturday. The State Fire Marshal’s office has determined an electrical malfunction in a...
by Matt Kelley | Nov 29, 2011 | Crime & Courts, Education, News
A school teacher in central Iowa has pled not guilty to federal charges of attempting to entice minors on the Internet. Thirty-two-year-old Steven Williams of Windsor Heights allegedly tried to engage in sexual activities with several teenagers who were actually...
by Dar Danielson | Nov 29, 2011 | Business, News
American Airlines announced it is filing for bankruptcy, but officials at airports in Iowa’s two largest cities say they don’t expect any immediate impact on them. The airline says it won’t reduce flight operations while they reorganize. Don Smithey of the Des...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Nov 29, 2011 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Outdoors
One expert says record snowpack, followed by record rainfall and record flooding may become a repeating pattern for western Iowa in the future. Steven Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, says as the climate changes, we can expect more extremes...
by O. Kay Henderson | Nov 29, 2011 | Health & Medicine, News
Despite Governor Branstad’s opposition to the new national health care reform law, the State of Iowa is accepting a federal grant to build a new state “insurance exchange” to help individuals and small businesses find health care coverage. The $7...