by Matt Kelley | Mar 29, 2013 | News, Politics & Government
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is crafting the Republican alternative to a gun control package introduced last week by Senate Democrats. Grassley won’t say what will be included in the proposal, but in the past, he’s opposed extended background checks and an...
by Todd Kimm | Mar 29, 2013 | Sports
Less than two weeks after firing Mark Phelps Drake University has named its new basketball coach. Drake athletic director Sandy Hatfield Clubb introduced 50-year-old Giacoletti, a native of Peoria, Illinois, as the new coach. He has been a head coach at North Dakota...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 29, 2013 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
Every newborn in Iowa would be tested for heart defects if a bill that cleared the Iowa Senate this week become law. Senator Joe Bolkcom, a Democrat from Iowa City, says about one-fourth of babies who die from a birth defect had some sort of a congenital heart...
by Dar Danielson | Mar 29, 2013 | News
The U.S.D.A. spring planting survey shows farmers across the country intend to plant a little more corn and slightly less soybeans in the upcoming growing season. Iowa goes slightly against that trend. The state was the top corn producer in the nation last year and...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 29, 2013 | Crime & Courts, News, Politics & Government
The Iowa House this week voted to make the penalty for all identity theft cases a felony. Representative Mark Brandenburg, a Republican from Council Bluffs, urged legislators to endorse the change. “Currently, if the value of the credit, property or services...
