Beth Goetz, who has served as the University of Iowa’s interim athletics director since Aug. 1, has been named the university’s permanent athletics director.
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Beth Goetz, who has served as the University of Iowa’s interim athletics director since Aug. 1, has been named the university’s permanent athletics director.
Also, advocates for food assistance programs held a news conference at the capitol Wednesday to call on the state to join a federal program that would provide summer food assistance for kids.
Fishing column: After a slow start, the ice fishing season is finally here, but you should still play it safe.
After three failed attempts to sell and repurpose the old brick building on Mount Vernon Road SE, the city of Cedar Rapids will take redevelopment proposals once more after receiving an inquiry from a developer.
Iowa schools could offer beginning teachers a salary increase of up to $16,500 under a bill proposed by Gov. Kim Reynolds. While educators are enthusiastic about increasing teacher pay, many worry about controversial proposed changes to Iowa’s area education agencies under the same bill.
The city of Marion has earned $136,480 from traffic camera citations since cameras were installed at two intersections in the city last summer, but that money only comes from about 37 percent of the citations that have been issued. The rest had not yet been paid, as of Dec. 31.
Kazius Childress fired 11 times as 19-year-old Cordal Lewis tried to run away from him, a a prosecutor said during her opening Wednesday. Childress is on trial this week for first-degree murder and going armed with intent. Childress and others robbed Lewis and then Childress shot him in “cold blood.”
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird sued the popular social media app TikTok on Wednesday, alleging the app is "misleading parents" by hosting sexual content and profanity while maintaining a "12+" rating on Apple's App Store.
False threats were reported at Marion High School and other eastern Iowa schools Wednesday, on the same day that Iowa House lawmakers advanced a bill that would make it a felony to make a false report of a serious crime to law enforcement.
Conversion therapy, the practice of attempting to convince gay people to become heterosexual, is widely discredited and opposed by medical and psychiatric organizations
Knowingly reporting fake information about serious crimes to law enforcement agencies in Iowa would be a felony under legislation advanced Wednesday in the Iowa House.
Above-normal temperatures predicted next week, when snow should melt.
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