Frank Piersol’s son remembers him as a man dedicated to his family, his friends, and his love for music.
Piersol, a former UI band director, died Feb. 19. He was 98 years old.
The former director of...
School boards looking to chart a new course may have more options.
If passed, a proposed state bill would create a state-sanctioned board to help create charter schools, public institutions with a niche...
For roughly two and a half years, the UI has been at the forefront of research into one of the most common pathogens affecting Americans.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogenic bacteria...
Like many college students in Iowa City, Karla Miller spent the occasional night out with girlfriends.
One of those seemingly simple nights, however, ended up changing her life forever.
After a softball...
The way UI gifted researchers see it, no child should be left behind — or held back from her or his possible future.
The Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, which works to...
A new committee to decide the allocation of the student activity fees is garnering praise from both sides of a yearlong funding dispute.
The new committee will help determine how much funding groups with...
Justin Marshall has been in jail for more than 90 days.
The 19-year-old is being held as a material witness in conjunction with the Oct. 8 shooting death of John Versypt, the landlord of an apartment...
UI social-work major Anna Schwenker loves giving children the opportunity to learn musical instruments.
The music-minor counsels youth through music and other programs as a part of her practicum.
Today...
Stephanie Griest fondly remembers the adventurous and worldly bedtime stories her father, a Navy drummer, told her. She got the travel bug early on.
“I just have wanderlust encoded in my DNA,” the...
Iowa City police arrested a man last week after he allegedly beat a dog.
Earnest Mitchell, 54, 2401 Highway 6 E. Apt. 3427, was charged Feb. 12 with animal abuse after a woman, the dog’s owner, reported...
A UI student and IMU Catering employee was charged last month after allegedly using someone’s ID to steal items from Mayflower Market.
Junqi Ji, 19, 1122 N. Dubuque St., was charged Jan. 31 with third-degree...
An 18-year-old accused of shooting an Iowa City man outside the now-closed Los Cocos bar has accepted a plea agreement, said assistant Johnson County prosecutor Deb Minot.
According to court documents,...
