Jim White stood in the middle of Taft Speedway on Thursday and gestured toward the row of houses between him and the Iowa River.
“I don’t like to see these as houses,” he said. “I see them as...
Fasten your seat belt and enjoy the drive … without your cell phone.
The distracted-driving bill signed more than a year ago today, banning texting for all drivers, can now be enforced with a fine.
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Education funding shouldn’t be the target of a national push to cut the federal budget, U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, said in Johnson County on Thursday.
Loebsack, speaking to a crowd of around 100...
A bill proposed by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, could provide more funding to children placed in foster care because of substance abuse in the family.
According to the National Meth Center, Iowa’s...
When Mandi Carozza visits home, she always makes sure to drop by her best friend Jenny’s house to visit with her family.
“I see Jenny in her mom, and I think she sees Jenny in me,” Carozza said.
The...
Toting notebooks and pens, a curious group of fifth- and sixth-graders walked around the University of Iowa’s Karro Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday.
But this wasn’t an everyday tour.
The 35...
A fire Wednesday evening left one Iowa City structure with over $40,000 in damages.
According to a press release, the Iowa City Fire Department was dispatched to a burning structure at 1032 Howell Street.
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The Iowa Legislature voted to approve several new laws in this last legislative season. Today, many of them will go into effect.
Paid leave
The paid-leave law goes into effect today; it will require...
At first glance, the two-lane bridge over Wapsinonoc Creek seems up-to-date. But a closer inspection reveals rusted bolts, graffiti, and crooked beams. More than 4,000 cars travel across it each day, and...
A new city ordinance regulating vendors on Melrose Avenue on game days may leave the Magic Bus homeless again come fall.
Under the new ordinance, which passed its first vote June 21, the sale of alcohol...
Local residents may be the target of a telephone scam, according to a press release from Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek.
The release said people have received phone calls from a computerized voice...
A local man was arrested last month after he allegedly threw a woman to the ground by her hair and destroyed hundreds of dollars of her property.
Baari Abdu Bin Arafat, 25, 2107 Davis St., was charged...
