Iowa City School District officials will most likely focus on mathematics and reading with the more than $1.1 million they’re expected to receive from the federal economic-recovery package, said the...
Lacking a dart board, pool table, and beer tap, the UI Alumni Association’s “virtual pub” has little resemblance to an actual bar.
The website, which provides Hawkeye news, music, and memories to...
The UI continues to spend money to maintain its national reputation as an accredited university, despite campuswide budget cuts.
Across campus, some class sizes could expand, programs could be eliminated,...
As the budget-crunching clock ticks away, members of the six task forces across campus are working feverishly to produce cost-saving proposals to UI administrators.
Initiated by UI President Sally Mason,...
More and more Iowans are using free health clinics — and officials said they expect the number to grow as the unemployment rate skyrockets.
At the Iowa City Free Medical Clinic, officials said they...
A toxicologist testified he is sure Curtis Fry was blacked out from drinking too much the night he allegedly killed a 75-year-old man.
Terry Martinez, who also specializes in pharmacology, said after...
The Quad Cities Passenger Rail Coalition has received $475,000 toward a goal of $56 million to install a passenger line linking Iowa City with Chicago.
Paul Rumler, the group’s executive director, made...
Jeff Elton can’t control his stomach.
The 55-year old Des Moines resident has a nasty medical condition — gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis — that precludes the normal digestion of food.
The...
Kneeling down on the hardwood floor of her Coralville home, Linda Bang had her hands full: one hand on Jack’s back and the other on Sam’s.
“Come on, boys,” she said on Tuesday evening to her two...
An intoxication defense in criminal trials isn’t uncommon, but UI professors are uncertain whether it applies for second-degree murder charges.
Generally, voluntary intoxication can be used as a defense...
UI freshman Mary Wine wishes local officials would focus their attention on other issues downtown.
A newly approved measure that increased the fine for under-19 patrons in bars after 10 p.m. doesn’t...
Jon Houtman made the decision to join the UI’s faculty as an assistant professor of microbiology largely because of one UI program: the Dual Career Network.
“That was important, because my wife was...
