When it comes time to leave a foster-care family, many children have difficulty adjusting to adult life.
Without a traditional support system, many are less likely to graduate from high school or successfully...
Iowa City School District officials now have a clearer picture of budget cuts they will need to make.
Officials will likely need to cut between roughly $1.4 million and $7.4 million in the 2010-11 school...
UI alumni Bob Whitmore and Molly Osterhaus Whitmore gave a $1 million donation to continue the work of UI Professor Emeritus Ignacio Ponseti worldwide.
Bob Whitmore graduated from the UI in 1986, earning...
Alcohol-related crimes at the UI are up, according to a state Board of Regents report released Thursday.
The report is for the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30, and since the quarter that ended June...
UI senior Rebecca McCray spent her summer helping women make books at the Correctional Institution for Women in Mitchellville, Iowa.
An English major, her time there uncovered a passion for reaching out...
Some officials in the UI chemistry department say claims made in a recently released report regarding the condition of the Chemistry Building are an inaccurate representation of the department’s laboratory...
The same month that regents denied UI President Sally Mason a pay increase last year, in part because of the university’s mishandling of an alleged on-campus sexual assault, she received a $50,000 bonus.
The...
Three Democratic candidates running against Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, agreed on Thursday night: the economic crisis will continue to be a major issue throughout the 2010 campaign race.
The hopefuls...
Officials from the UI Competition with Private Enterprise Committee failed to make a decision Thursday regarding a complaint filed by the Iowa City Eels swim club against the UI’s new Iowa Flyers club.
UI...
The Johnson County court staff braced for the first of 10 furlough days today, but they didn’t do much to prepare.
Because they couldn’t.
All they could do is wait to see how big the backlog of paperwork...
If jumping up and down in a black unitard, plastic silver mask, and thick leather shoes in excruciating summer heat for 16 hours isn’t the definition of passion, the word is indefinable.
While most...
North Liberty resident Sharon Romans might have to pull her kids out of private schooling next year if the Iowa City School District cuts its busing service for students at the Regina Catholic Education...
