A UI task force found a slew of inappropriate laboratory practices occurring in the Chemistry Building, which at least 11 occupants say have caused them to become ill since 2007, according to a report...
A small fire forced about 130 residents to evacuate the UI’s Parklawn Apartments on Wednesday morning.
Iowa City firefighters responded to a report of an automatic alarm. A UI police officer on the...
State officials will meet today to discuss whether to halt sales of Everclear 151 in Iowa in response to an incident last week at Drake University, when a 19-year-old student ingested cups of Everclear...
Summit owner Mike Porter’s lawsuit against Iowa City could decide the future of the city’s PAULA-ratio policy. But an expected loss of revenue until then may be hard for the downtown bar to swallow.
The...
When a stranger put a knife to S.M.’s throat and threatened to kill her, she didn’t even flinch.
Rather, S.M. — as she is known at the UI Hospitals and Clinics — looked at the man and simply told...
More than half of Americans believe health-care reform would do more harm than good and disapprove of how President Obama is settling into his job, according to a Hawkeye Poll released Wednesday.
The...
Atomic bombs have taken over for action heroes in the Main Library’s exhibition lobby.
The Comics and Culture exhibit was retired Nov. 9 to make way for a new exhibit, Material Witness: Remembering...
The Iowa City School District’s redistricting committee engaged in an interactive PowerPoint presentation by its hired consultants at the committee’s first meeting on Wednesday night.
In the presentation,...
Some Iowa City citizens came with numerous complaints for the Police Citizen’s Review Board on Wednesday — especially about the Iowa City police’s use-of-force policy.
The board — a group of five...
Greg Schmidt furiously scrubs his hands and forearms as his research assistant, Vickie LeGare, watches with a hint of impatience.
The duo from the Iowa Lions Eye Bank in Iowa City is about to prepare...
In the middle of mostly white Iowa, UI officials are hoping to attract students with some diverse thinking.
Beginning in the spring of 2010, the university will be the first school in the Big Ten to offer...
Janet Schlapkohl is producing young starlets every day — growing pains included.
Monday’s life lesson: dancing the waltz.
Schlapkohl, 52, founded City High’s “Combined Efforts Community Drama,”...
