President Obama announced Wednesday in an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts that he supports gay marriage, marking him as the first president in history to announce support on this issue. Oh, please....

The fact that anti-tax economic theories continue to weigh so heavily in debates over how to best address our current economic problems remains astonishing to me. Not because I do not appreciate the persuasive...

Junior Seau's recent death has once again sparked conversation about concussions and their effects on the athletes of today and the retirees of tomorrow. It's easy to assume football is the college leader...

The Iowa softball team is half a game behind Michigan in the Big Ten standings, and the Hawkeyes have three games to try to jump ahead of the Wolverines. Final exams will be over for the athletes and they...

Sonja Molnar, tennis Iowa women's tennis player Sonja Molnar should have been named The Daily Iowan's Female Athlete of the Year. Molnar was a five-star recruit coming out of high school, and she lived...

Becky Stoughton set the record books ablaze in 2011-12. The freshman from Peoria, Ill., holds five school records — in the 200, 500, 1,000, and 1,650 freestyles and the 400 individual medley — and...

An Iowa City man was charged with allegedly possessing 68 grams of marijuana. Kory Meister, 22, 504 S. Johnson St. #3, was charged Tuesday with possession of a controlled substance to keep or permit use...

A local man has been arrested for allegedly forging three checks. Keethan Roland, 20, 3536 Shamrock Place, was charged with three charges of forgery and third-degree theft. According to an Iowa City...

During the second day of a trial involving the alleged failure of a mandatory reporter to fulfill her duties in a sexual-abuse case, several testimonies attested as to whether or not Susan Freeman-Murdah...

Many Iowans and gay-rights activists say the president's formal endorsement of same-sex marriage opens the door for stronger national support for same-sex couples. President Obama told ABC News in an...

For the first time in a decade, the University of Iowa saw a 6 percent decrease in the student high-risk drinking rate in 2011. But high-risk drinking rates still remained almost twice as high as the...

In the two years since Iowa City implemented its 21-ordinance, many have expressed interest in analyzing how the ordinance has altered rates of alcohol-related crime and arrests. Raw statistics from the...