Juliet Reid slowly dips a fire poi into fuel. A ball attached to the end of a metal chain quickly catches fire. Tightening a lime green cap on her wavy brown hair, she waits for the electronic music to...

America's first problem in Afghanistan is that the Afghan people in the key battleground don't understand why we're there: When pollsters read a simple summary of the 9/11 attack and its aftermath to a...

One of the most famous miscommunications in film was delivered perfectly: "Surely you can't be serious!" a flight attendant says to a doctor. "I am serious," he replies with a straight...

For all of those hopeful, keep dreaming. Obtaining a written prescription for medical marijuana in Iowa likely won't happen anytime soon, according to one state legislator. While the Iowa Board of Pharmacy...

Tempers flared Wednesday in the Field House South Gym as Da Heat and the Retreads failed to decide a winner in their second-round intramural three-on-three basketball game. With the Retreads up 14-13...

Iowa women's track and field head coach Layne Anderson has high expectations for freshman long-jumper Carisa Leacock, a Trinidad and Tobago native, "Anytime you jump over 20 feet in high school,...

For a minute, they were almost believable. The Iowa wrestlers tried admirably on Tuesday to persuade reporters that Friday's showdown with Iowa State doesn't hold much extra importance. Senior Luke Lofthouse...

No matter who the Iowa women's basketball team plays over its next few games, the mindset and goal will remain the same: Go game-by-game without looking ahead. And accomplish what they've done seven times...

Outsized, outranked, but unwavering, the 18th-ranked Iowa women's basketball team will try to continue its undefeated season against its first ranked opponent. The Hawkeyes (7-0) will have their hands...

Daily Iowan reporter Nina Earnest has been awarded second place in the 2010 Hearst Foundation feature-writing contest. She was recognized for her work on an article "Education on hyper drive,"...

A 15- year-old Iowa City student allegedly started a fire in the mens bathroom of his high school. Christopher J. Spurgeon, 15, was charged Tuesday with first degree arson. According to a police report,...

Most sports fans know athletics isn't exactly fair. Catriona Parratt takes that knowledge to the next level. A University of Iowa associate professor of American studies, she researches sport's ability...