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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

IC police arrest man who fled officers in 2009

DI STAFF June 29, 2011

Iowa City police arrested a man nearly two years ago after he allegedly stole a computer from a local residence and fled from officials. Lawrence Curtis Glover, 28, was charged Oct. 21, 2009, with third-degree...

Ride and Read program boosts library circulation

LUKE VOELZ June 28, 2011

City bus tickets are facing a cheaper, plastic alternative: library cards. Iowa City Public Library officials said the library’s Ride & Read program, which allows library cardholders a free ride...

School Board candidate Hemingway holds first listening post event

BRIAN ALBERT June 28, 2011

Phil Hemingway envisions a community of collaboration and honesty, he said before a small audience at the Iowa City Public Library Monday. The candidate for the Iowa City School Board held his first of...

Student Legal Services head an award-winning photog

JULIANA FABIANO June 28, 2011

Four years ago, Greg Bal picked up a camera thinking it would make a great hobby. “I bought a camera and just learned on my own,” he said. “It’s something I always enjoyed doing for the fun of...

Japanese Beetles wreak havoc in Eastern Iowa

BRITTANY TREVICK June 28, 2011

Chris Harmeyer didn’t spray his vineyard with insecticide for two days. The next thing he knew, Japanese beetles had defoliated two of his seven acres. That was two years ago, but Harmeyer, the owner...

Handful of Iowa lawmakers endorse Pawlenty for 2012

DI STAFF June 28, 2011

GOP presidental-nomination candidate Tim Pawlenty named 10 Iowa legislators to his Iowa Legislative Steering Committee on Monday, according to a campaign press release. Among the lawmakers is Sen. Shawn...

Obama adds six Iowa counties to Presidential Major Disaster Declaration

DI STAFF June 28, 2011

President Obama authorized a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for six Iowa counties affected by flooding along the Missouri River Monday, according to a press release from Gov. Terry Branstad’s...

Police: Woman approached others with broken bottle

DI STAFF June 28, 2011

A Muscatine woman was arrested Sunday after she allegedly assaulted three people at a trailer park. Nora Lissett Medrano, 34, was charged June 26 with public intoxication, assault causing injury, and...

Local Dems make Afghanistan 2012 caucus issue

LINDSAY DOUGLAS June 28, 2011

Organizers in Iowa City are frustrated at President Obama’s war record and are organizing caucus delegates to push for a quicker end to the war in Afghanistan. With the group Health Care Not Warfare,...

Obama challenger Braun pushes energy reform

KATIE HEINE June 27, 2011

RIVERSIDE, Iowa — Harry Braun is not a politician, and he said so himself in front of nearly 30 people on Sunday. But Braun “believes” in science. And science, he said, is the driving force behind...

Iowa City ‘kicks’ cancer with Tae Kwan Do

BRITTANY TREVICK June 27, 2011

Sonny Nguyen stood straight, stared at the board in front of him, and whipped his head forward and smashed the board in half. He didn’t flinch. “If you don’t break it, then, yes, [it hurts],”...

Club Kazi holds city’s first major Juneteenth festival

LUKE VOELZ June 27, 2011

Though slavery was abolished in the United States almost 150 years ago, LaTasha Massey is using its memory to aid the lives of foster children — whose lives, she said, are often shackled by an uncertain...