Friday Morning Read: Rockwell Collins names Collins Aerospace executive office, immunity in Ped Mall fatal shooting not settled yet, meat producers cry foul on University of Iowa Student Government 'Meatless Mondays'

Rockwell Collins names Collins Aerospace executive office, division locations- The current home of Rockwell Collins would hang on to two sections of the company's business after it is acquired by United Technologies Corp., even as executives move to Florida.

Rockwell Collins announced Thursday a proposed organizational structure for Collins Aerospace Systems, the business it would form by combining with UTC Aerospace Systems. Read more...

Immunity in Ped Mall fatal shooting not settled yet- The immunity provision of Iowa's new 'stand your ground' law provides little guidance on procedure, so a judge said Thursday he is 'making it up as we go along.'

Which means 6th Judicial District Judge Paul Miller didn't make a ruling Thursday on whether Lamar Wilson, 21, of Iowa City, should be immune from prosecution in the Aug. 27, 2017, shooting on downtown Iowa City's Pedestrian Mall that left Kaleek Jones, 22, dead and Xavier Hicks and his cousin, D'Andre Hicks, injured in an encounter of two feuding groups. Read more...

Meat producers cry foul on University of Iowa Student Government 'Meatless Monday' initiative- Several representatives from Iowa's meat and livestock industry on Thursday lined up with complaints for Iowa's Board of Regents over a University of Iowa Student Government-led 'Meatless Monday' initiative.

 The initiative — led by students and promoted through the university's 'Climate for Change' theme semester — began earlier this month with student government representatives handing out fliers highlighting meatless options available in the dining halls, according to UI spokeswoman Jeneane Beck. Read more...

Iowa Board of Regents members vow heads-up on future tuition hikes- In addition to committing to tuition increases for resident undergraduates under 4 percent for this fall — scaling back proposals made over the summer as high as 7 percent — the president of Iowa's Board of Regents promised Thursday to announce in the coming months a multiyear tuition model.

That model would lay out baseline increases — or a potential range — for four or five years in hopes of providing students and families with more predictability about the cost of higher education at Iowa's public universities. Read more...

Jordan Bohannon has 32 free throws down, 101 to go- Jordan Bohannon has made his last 32 free throw attempts for the Iowa men's basketball team, and that's good. Very good.

If he makes his next two, Linn-Mar High graduate Bohannon will tie the Hawkeyes' record of 34 set by Chris Street over the last six games he played before his 1993 death. But he'll still be 99 (gulp!) shy of the high mark at any level of American basketball, preps to pros. Which happens to be held by a fellow Iowan. Read more...