Republican Congressman Steve King was in California last week to see prototypes for the wall along the southern border. “I thought the prototypes were pretty fancy and I thought that they were expensive,” King told Radio Iowa. King, a former contractor, praised the workmanship, but King said the 30-foot-tall sections are not “conducive” to a construction […]Powered by WPeMatico
For the second day in a row, a victim was recovered from the waters of the Missouri River in Sioux City on Sunday. Sioux City Police were dispatched to the public boat ramp around 8:30 a.m. for a report of an individual acting in a bizarre manner. Officers were unable to locate the man but […]Powered by WPeMatico
Authorities in Sioux City recovered a car Saturday that had plunged into the Missouri River last Monday. Police confirmed that there were three bodies inside the car. They were identified as 51-year-old Salomon Medina, his 41-year-old wife Angelica Medina-Gonzales and their 17-year-old daughter Vanessa Medina Gonzales. The three victims had last been seen at a […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa State University will have a new president by tonight. Dale Whittaker, from the University of Central Florida, withdrew last week, so the state Board of Regents is interviewing the three remaining finalists today. They are: Sonny Ramaswamy, who heads the National Institute of Food and Agriculture; Pamela Whitten, a senior vice president at the […]Powered by WPeMatico
A weekend crash in central Iowa claimed two lives and left two other people badly hurt. Des Moines police say a pickup truck was trying to pass slow traffic on a rural road and hit an on-coming SUV head-on. The driver of the SUV, 56-year-old Kathryn Kinley, was killed, as was a passenger, 13-year-old Nariyo […]Powered by WPeMatico
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley says President Trump is making the right call in releasing the final classified papers from the investigation of JFK’s assassination. “Government over-classifies and after 50 years, it’s about time,” Grassley told Radio Iowa. Thousands of documents about the November, 1963 assassination of President Kennedy have been kept in the National Archives. […]Powered by WPeMatico
A new report indicates faculty at Iowa’s three public universities work, on average, about 55 hours per week. Officials from the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa presented the results of a “faculty activities” survey to the board that governs the universities. Rachel Boon, the chief academic officer for […]Powered by WPeMatico
ABCNews.com(MIAMI) -- A Miami-area man has been arrested for allegedly plotting to plant a bomb at a Miami shopping mall, two people familiar with the matter told ABC News on Sunday.The man, Vicente Solano, was allegedly inspired by ISIS, as first reported by the Miami Herald.Solano was caught up in an FBI sting operation, where he allegedly thought he was engaging with a like-minded radical but was actually in touch […]
The 20 Democrats in the Iowa Senate met privately Sunday and elected a new leader. Rob Hogg of Cedar Rapids had been the Democratic minority leader in the state senate for almost a year. Hogg got the job shortly after Democrats suffered election losses in November of 2016. But now Hogg is out and 47-year-old Janet […]Powered by WPeMatico
