The Iowa State basketball team has landed Princeton graduate transfer Hans Brase and he will be immediately eligible upon earning his degree from Princeton. “I am really excited to add Hans to our program and to the Cyclone family,” said Iowa State coach Steve Prohm. “He comes from a program I have great respect for […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey this morning told Iowa reporters there’s no formal signal from the Trump Administration that he’s been chosen to serve as an “undersecretary” in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “Certainly very interested in being able to work with them whether it’s from here or from there,” Northey said. Speculation ramped up […]Powered by WPeMatico
Governor Terry Branstad today said he’s thrilled China has taken additional steps to lift its embargo against U.S. beef. “Oh, it’s huge,” Branstad told reporters this morning. “This is something we’ve wanted for years and years and years.” The embargo was imposed in 2003 after a Mad Cow case. China actually agreed to lift the ban last […]Powered by WPeMatico
An 18-year-old woman survived a frightful fall into the Cedar River on Sunday afternoon. Cedar Falls firefighters and police rescued Chloe Adams of Waterloo after she slipped into the churning water beneath the Ice House dam. Adams was pulled under by the swift currents in the tail waters of the dam. A Cedar Falls police […]Powered by WPeMatico
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue pointed out during his visit to Iowa last week that a Le Mars, Iowa native serves as his executive assistant. Rachel Pick started working in Washington, D.C. as part of Senator Chuck Grassley’s staff before becoming an employee of the U.S. Senate in the Sergeant-At-Arms office. She says meeting Perdue […]Powered by WPeMatico
Senator Joni Ernst is applauding the Trump Administration’s decision to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria. “This is an immense milestone,” Ernst says. Ernst, a veteran of the Iraq war, has long argued the U.S. should arm Kurdish fighters known as the Peshmerga in Iraq. Last week’s decision, however, arms Kurdish units in Syria known as […]Powered by WPeMatico
Allison Wrabel/The Daily Progress(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- A group of white nationalists carried torches Saturday night in Charlottesville, Virginia while protesting the planned removal of Confederate statues in the city -- an incident that has provoked anger and frustration from politicians and activists.The torch wielders -- reported to be several dozen by local paper Daily Progress -- were reacting to a November 28 city council vote to remove a statue of […]
Allison Wrabel/The Daily Progress(CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.) -- A group of white nationalists carried torches Saturday night in Charlottesville, Virginia while protesting the planned removal of Confederate statues in the city -- an incident that has provoked anger and frustration from politicians and activists.The torch wielders -- reported to be several dozen by local paper Daily Progress -- were reacting to a November 28 city council vote to remove a statue of […]
iStock/Thinkstock(BATON ROUGE, La.) -- An 18-year-old Baton Rouge, Louisiana high school quarterback, who had survived a drive-by shooting in November, was shot in the head and killed during his graduation party on Saturday, according to a report by ABC affiliate WBRZ-TV.Police told WBRZ-TV that McKinley High senior Bryant Lee was shot in the head Saturday at around 1:50 AM while attending the party a few blocks from his North Baton […]
