People walking through Iowa City’s Pedestrian Mall will soon be videotaped 24 hours a day.
But experts and local business owners disagree on whether the cameras will have any effect on crime.
The Iowa...
UI postdoctoral research scholar Erik Rader said he and his colleagues have lacked an identity on campus.
But with the establishment of the UI Office of Postdoctoral Scholars, he said, they won’t have...
Michael Sokoloff thinks violence is the answer when it comes to the stage.
Although now a semi-retired freelance writer, director, and fight choreographer, Sokoloff formerly worked in myriad performance...
Police have arrested a Cedar Rapids man, alleging that he stole and destroyed a laptop computer last year.
Wesly Sillman, 19, Cedar Rapids, was charged Nov. 22, 2009, with second-degree theft after he...
The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature has appointed its first executive director. Jeanette Pilak will be paid an annual salary of $80,000, group secretary Joshua Schamberger said.
Pilak is tasked with...
Law-enforcement authorities have charged an Ames man with speeding, driving with a suspended license, and concealing a controlled substance in the Johnson County Jail.
Lamont Williams, 28, was charged...
When Dianna Mosier went into work on Feb. 13, she got more than a sandwich at lunch time.
Mosier was told someone was looking for her outside, and she appeared from behind the counter at the Coralville...
As the UI continues to plan the rebuilding of the fine-arts buildings damaged by the 2008 flood, Iowa Writers’ Workshop Professor Marilynne Robinson sought to remind the community about the significance...
UI officials said they are optimistic about the benefits students could receive from an increase in Pell Grant funding, as outlined in President Obama’s recent budget proposal.
The proposed budget calls...
Iowa City School District officials are drafting a policy that would notify parents or guardians when a person who works with their children is accused of a crime.
Administrators currently conduct this...
A scroll and game pieces covered the table before Chris Mortika, as he described to the others role playing how he would get past an obstacle.
“I have a magical necklace that allows me to breathe underwater...
The home videos projected on the television screen at Scott Edwards’ Fort Madison home show a man who appears strangely unfamiliar to his 6-year-old son, Clay.
“Everyone, hurry and come in the room,...
