by Dar Danielson | Mar 31, 2015 | Crime & Courts, News
State Ombudsman Ruth Cooperrider, released her annual report on the activity in her office in 2014. Cooperrider says there was a slight increase in requests from Iowans. “We opened 4,135 contact cases, an increase from 4,010 from 2013,” Cooperrider says....
by Matt Kelley | Mar 31, 2015 | Crime & Courts, News
Testimony is underway in the second trial of man accused of killing a former roommate in northwest Iowa. Fifty-five-year-old John Green is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 58-year-old Mark Koster, who went missing in 2009 before his remains were found...
by Dar Danielson | Mar 31, 2015 | Health & Medicine, News
The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) is partnering with beverage distributors for the second year in a row to help get drink coasters promoting colorectal cancer screenings into bars and restaurants. IDPH’s Jeanna Jones says the campaign began as a...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 31, 2015 | Education, News, Politics & Government
The Iowa Senate has passed a bill designed to give school officials more authority to respond to bullying that occurs outside of school hours as well as on-line through Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. Senator Rob Hogg, a Democrat from Cedar Rapids,...
by Matt Kelley | Mar 31, 2015 | Crime & Courts, Education, News
The former bookstore manager at an eastern Iowa school is going to prison. James Spaulding pleaded guilty last December to mail fraud and filing a false tax return. The 35-year-old Spaulding was the bookstore manager for Clarke University in Dubuque when authorities...