Observant Jews in Iowa City are trying to make sure they don’t have to choose between practicing their religion and exercising their right to vote.
Local Jewish leaders said they support the letter...
Snowball was basically a celebrity on Sunday afternoon. To the tune of “Ice, Ice Baby” he landed his second blue ribbon of the day.
Approximately 250 dogs and their owners took over the Johnson County...
For Mark Isham, cartooning is not just mindless doodling — it is his way of keeping a journal. The UI adjunct lecturer has kept a daily comic of his life, drawing one a day, since Jan. 17, 2007.
“It’s...
Instead of turning people’s homes into rubble, Iowa City may begin moving flood-damaged houses to a different location.
The city began demolishing houses last week, but transferring homes may prove...
The living turned into the dead at the fourth-annual Iowa City Zombie walk this past weekend.
Mobs of people dressed as zombies paraded down Iowa City streets from Happy Hollow Park to the Deadwood to...
Nathan Hellwig, a teacher at City High and a Civil War re-enactor, doesn’t usually bring his students along on living history gigs. On Sunday, however, he made an exception for Thomas Panther, a sophomore...
The Iowa Supreme Court granted a new trial to a Coralville man convicted of shaking his infant child and causing shaken-baby syndrome.
Edwin Paredes was convicted in 2006 of child endangerment resulting...
A Mexican man in his early 40s sat focused at the end of a long table, stumbling over his pronunciation of “fireworks.” Not far away, a woman studied for the U.S. citizenship test, easily answering...
The Wal-Mart cash register intones the familiar beep as bread, turkey, cookies, chips, and plastic gloves slide past the scanner.
UI graduate Mitch Moylan pays the $35.02 bill, but the food isn’t for...
COUNCIL BLUFFS — UI students may face steeper tuition increases next year because of the ongoing financial struggles of Iowa’s universities, one member of the state Board of Regents said on Thursday.
Tuition...
For two UI alums, a class assignment turned into a company.
The business, J&J Solutions, is a concept developed in 2006 by John Slump and Jared Garfield as a part of the UI’s entrepreneurial program...
COUNCIL BLUFFS — UI President Sally Mason will not receive a pay raise for fiscal 2010, but she could receive a bonus of up to $80,000.
The state Board of Regents announced at its Thursday meeting in...
