An underdog is being celebrated with a new title more than 25 years after he was created to unite Center Point and Urbana. Here’s how Stormin’ Normin pulled it off.
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An underdog is being celebrated with a new title more than 25 years after he was created to unite Center Point and Urbana. Here’s how Stormin’ Normin pulled it off.
As white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:08 p.m. May 8 in Vatican City, University of Iowa Catholic Studies Chair Kristy Nabhan-Warren – although 5,000 miles from the action – felt uniquely positioned to understand its meaning and potential implications in today’s conflicted world of both increasing interconnectedness and growing division.
The man facing a first-degree murder charge in connection with the 1983 death of Ronald Novak placed himself at the home where the death occurred, a criminal complaint released Saturday shows.
Metro High School is sending six students and five teachers to Prague, Czech Republic in August as a part of a new state-funded pilot program to provide students career-connected learning opportunities throughout the summer.
Friday was the last of this week’s send-offs across the state for the Iowa Army National Guard, but certainly not the last of thousands of thoughts, hopes and prayers that will follow the 1,800 Iowa soldiers being deployed to the Middle East.
The 40-year-old went to a Cedar Rapids park earlier this year thinking he was going to meet a 14-year-old girl, criminal complaints say. He was met by police instead.
An 85-year-old Solon man who had gone out to work in his yard was found in a nearby pond several hours later.
Politics reporters across the state talk through this week in Iowa Politics, including recent town halls and the big, beautiful bill.
Health care organizations want Gov. Kim Reynolds to sign a recently-passed PBM bill into law, saying it will protect pharmacies; business groups want her to veto it, saying it will raise health care costs.
Iowa U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst was being criticized Friday after a comment she made earlier in the day during a town hall meeting in Parkersburg. While answering a question about proposed cuts to Medicaid, a member of the audience yelled “people will die.” Ernst responded, “Well, we all are going to die.”
Google, at an event in Cedar Rapids on Friday, announced a $7 billion investment in Iowa to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, adding to the $6.8 billion already invested since 2007.
The facility will create more than 700 jobs in Perry.
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