by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 31, 2012 | Crime & Courts, News
An Ottumwa man is being held on a bond of over one-million dollars after being charged with a murder that happened earlier this year. Twenty-five-year-old Bruce Darnell Pollard is facing a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the death of 70-year-old...
by Dar Danielson | May 31, 2012 | Business, Education, News
Residents and business owners in the neighborhood known as “College Hill” around the Malcom Price Lab School near the U.N.I. campus in Cedar Falls are watching and waiting to see what happens after the school is closed. The Board of Regents approved U.N.I....
by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 31, 2012 | Business, News
A northwest Iowa factory that makes furniture for hospitals and other health care facilities will close in mid-September. Nemschoff Chairs in Sioux Center is part of Herman Miller, Inc. Mark Schurman, a company spokesman, says 111 workers will lose their jobs....
by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 31, 2012 | Human Interest, News
Work is underway to highlight the history of windmills in a central Iowa county that has become one of the state’s top job creators in the wind energy industry. The Jasper County Historical Museum has landed a $9,800 grant for the exhibit, scheduled for...
by Dar Danielson | May 31, 2012 | News, Top Story
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board have announced plans to conduct a referendum on July 10th to ask producers to increase the corn checkoff by one-quarter cent so the amount paid on each bushel of corn would be one cent. Kevin Rempp...