by Todd Kimm | Aug 29, 2014 | Sports
Iowa State opens the new season by hosting three time defending FCS champion North Dakota State. The Cyclones hope for a better start this season after falling to UNI in last year’s opener. “You don’t have to spend much time emphasizing how we...
by Matt Kelley | Aug 29, 2014 | News, Outdoors
Swimming is not recommended in at least seven of Iowa’s state park lakes for the last holiday weekend of the summer. Mary Skopec is the beach monitoring coordinator with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. “Right now, we have five beaches that are...
by Dar Danielson | Aug 29, 2014 | Crime & Courts, Military, News
A former member of the military from eastern Iowa who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq was sentenced to five years of probation on a weapons charge. Thirty-one-year-old Matthew James Stover of Cedar Rapids pled guilty in November to one count of...
by O. Kay Henderson | Aug 29, 2014 | Business, News
The 10th Annual Festival of Iowa Beers is scheduled for this weekend at the Millstream Brewery in Amana. Millstream owner Teresa Albert says Iowa’s beer business is booming. “We have over 52 licensed breweries now,” Albert says, “and...
by Matt Kelley | Aug 29, 2014 | Crime & Courts, Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
State law enforcement officials are warning that the Labor Day weekend is historically one of the most dangerous holiday weekends on Iowa roadways. Sergeant Scott Bright, with the Iowa State Patrol, says in 2013, the Labor Day weekend had the second most traffic...
