by Radio Iowa Contributor | Mar 31, 2015 | News, Outdoors
Turkey hunting season starts next weekend (April 4th) for youth in Iowa and the season opens on April 13th for adults. Jim Coffee, a forest wildlife research technician with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, based in Chariton, says last year’s turkey...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 30, 2015 | News, Politics & Government
A woman in central Iowa is celebrating her 110th birthday today. State Senator Julian Garrett of Indianola offers some perspective on Tressa Bartholomew’s longevity. “When she was born Theodore Roosevelt was president of the United States,” Garrett...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Mar 30, 2015 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
A storm-chasing team from Iowa has provided live video of some major storms in other states, including the twin tornadoes that devastated a small town in northeast Nebraska last year. Ben McMillan is a member of the Iowa Storm Chasing Network, which live-streamed the...
by Dar Danielson | Mar 30, 2015 | Crime & Courts, News
An eastern Iowa man is going to prison for more then seven years for possessing an unregistered gun. Twenty-four-year-old Jordan Michael Edmonds of Dubuque admitted in June of last year to one count of possession of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun. He admitted to...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 30, 2015 | Business, News, Politics & Government
Governor Terry Branstad says the Hy-Vee supermarket chain is a “good corporate citizen” and deserves the $7.5 million in state tax incentives it has been awarded for expansion of its corporate headquarters in West Des Moines. “We’re very...
