by Radio Iowa Contributor | Jan 31, 2018 | Health & Medicine, News
A school district in northeast Iowa is planning to purchase more automated external defibrillators after an AED was put to use shortly after a basketball game. It happened a few weeks ago at Independence High School. Activities Director Justin Putz told KCRG TV one...
by Dar Danielson | Jan 31, 2018 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News, Politics & Government
A train carrying Republican lawmakers to a GOP retreat in West Virginia ran into a dump truck today. A spokesperson for Iowa Congressman David Young says Young was on the train, and was not injured in the accident. Iowa Senator Joni Ernst tweeted that she was on the...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jan 31, 2018 | News, Outdoors, Politics & Government
A huge crowd gathered in the governor’s formal office at the capitol this morning to witness Kim Reynolds sign a water quality bill into law. “Making strides towards improved water quality takes collaboration among many players and we are surrounded today...
by Matt Kelley | Jan 31, 2018 | Crime & Courts, News
A documentary filmmaker from central Iowa is in the midst of a crowdsourcing campaign to raise money for her next project which she says will expose the underground industry of sex trafficking in Iowa. Vanessa McNeal, of Des Moines, says people are being bought and...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Jan 31, 2018 | Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
A three-member panel in the state senate is delaying a decision on a bill that would do away with handwritten prescriptions on paper and require that all prescriptions be submitted to pharmacies electronically. Senator Tom Greene, a Republican from Burlington who is a...