Iowa City City Council will consider a proposal for an ordinance amendment that would allow enforcement of red-light traffic laws automatically, according the agenda of the Nov. 22 meeting.
The amendment...
Iowa City public works staff plans to recommend to city officials an increase in the cost per ton of refuse — or tipping fee — at the landfill, which would become effective July 1, 2012.
This will...
A Coralville man faces numerous theft and criminal conduct charges after he allegedly committed a series of identity thefts, using the identities to order merchandise online.
According to a series...
Megan Schwalm-Bell loves her son's hair.
It's thick, black, and curly.
But the white mother — who adopted her 15-month-old black son, Maddox, soon after he was born — promptly discovered not everyone...
Campus environmentalists delivered a petition with 2,500 signatures to President Sally Mason's office on Wednesday, urging the University of Iowa administration to curb the school's coal use sooner than...
A recent increase in the number of patients seeking treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals locally and nationwide may mean backups at those facilities, one expert said Wednesday.
Valerie Buckingham,...
Iowa caucus hopeful Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan would put a sales tax on basic food items in Iowa and Johnson County, where no such tax now exists.
Cristi Gleason, a University of Iowa accounting associate...
Though University of Iowa police said they are working to improve the HawkAlert system, the university keeps no records of previously issued alerts.
And UI spokesman Tom Moore said there is no "operational...
Local musician Mitchell Gardner has produced several LP records of his original songs. But his new project — set to be completed in February — is a rock opera based on conversations with his alter...
Police arrested a Coralville woman Wednesday alleging that she intentionally set a fire that killed a 14-year-old boy.
Lillie Will Williams, 49, 419 10th Ave., was charged Wednesday with first-degree...
A Grinnell woman has been charged after allegedly posted a fraudulent Craigslist ad for tickets to the Iowa/Nebraska football game Nov. 25.
Tabitha Jensen, 28, was charged Oct. 28 with second-degree theft.
According...
Police charged a Coralville man after he allegedly assaulted a woman at her residence.
Martel Horton, 25, 954 Boston Way No. 11, was charged Nov. 16 with false imprisonment, domestic abuse assault with...
