by Matt Kelley | Apr 27, 2012 | Human Interest, News
Iowans are offering their input on five proposed routes a high-speed rail system may be taking across the state and public meetings are planned next week. The passenger train would run between Omaha and Chicago. Amanda Martin, with the Iowa Department of...
by Dar Danielson | Apr 27, 2012 | Business, News, Recreation / Entertainment
The Iowa Lottery reports proceeds to the state are already over the $58.7 million the organization projected for the fiscal year that ends in July. The money returned to the state in March was $10-million more than March of last year. Lottery C.E.O. Terry Rich says...
by Dar Danielson | Apr 27, 2012 | Crime & Courts, Education, News
The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled a parent’s financial standing should be considered in requiring them to contribute to a child’s college expenses. The Dubuque County district court ordered Philip Vaughan to pay one third of the cost of his 22-year-old...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Apr 27, 2012 | Human Interest, News
A north-central Iowa-based Boy Scouts council has decided to sell one of their camps and part of another. The board of directors for the Winnebago Council of the Boys Scouts Thursday night decided to sell the Winnebago Scout Reservation near Marble Rock and part of...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Apr 27, 2012 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
Crews are working to repair the natural gas pipeline that was damaged Wednesday in Plymouth County when two men working with a trencher hit it. Northern Natural Gas spokesman, Mike Loeffler, says it is a 24-inch pipeline. Loeffler says they are working...
