All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 14 2012 // Some 3,000 Warren County, Iowa, residents have been notified that their personal information may have been scattered by the wind in the aftermath of a December fire at a human services office.Pat Penning, service area...
May 14 2012 // The grass-strip McBride Airport has closed nearly 50 years after it was carved out of an eastern Iowa farm field.Ivan McBride told The Gazette it’s difficult to close the tiny airport in Marion that his late father...
May 11 2012 // The board of directors of Iowa Mutual Insurance Co., in DeWitt, Iowa, has elected Drew Bright president. Bright is the 10th president of the company in its more than 100-year history. He succeeds Thomas R. Cole, who...
May 8 2012 // Buyers of commercial liability insurance pay as much as 31 percent more in insurer compliance costs if their insurance company has to comply with regulations from multiple states instead of just a single regulator,...
May 7 2012 // A Bettendorf company has been fined $35,000 for burning demolition debris and failing to properly dispose of asbestos. The Iowa Attorney General’s Office says Rockingham-Lunex Co. and its owner, William Schmidt of...
May 7 2012 // Approximately one year ago, on Sunday, May 22, 2011, at about 5:30 p.m., Joplin, Mo., was devastated by a massive EF 5 tornado that at times was 1 mile wide and traveled on the ground for more than 20 miles. This storm,...
Apr 27 2012 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers (the Big “I”) has awarded an Iowa agency owner, Bob Fulwider, with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its membersThe...
Apr 19 2012 // The Missouri House has endorsed legislation that would make it a crime for undercover activists to produce videos portraying poor conditions at livestock farms or other agricultural facilities.The legislation given...
Apr 16 2012 // Tornadoes raking communities across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma, damaging a hospital, homes and other buildings as a vast severe weather front plunged eastward on April...
Apr 16 2012 // They were learning to become truck drivers but wound up in a nightmare. In detailed accounts to a federal agency, dozens of female employees of an Iowa-based trucking company, one of the largest in the nation, told of...
Apr 12 2012 // Both sides intend to appeal an Iowa jury’s decision that a television campaign ad by Democrats libeled and slandered Sioux City Republican Sen. Rick Bertrand during the 2010 campaign, The Des Moines Register...
Apr 5 2012 // They were learning to become truck drivers but wound up in a nightmare. In detailed accounts to a federal agency, dozens of female employees of an Iowa-based trucking company, one of the largest in the nation, told of...
Mar 29 2012 // A judge has ordered the University of Iowa to pay a suspended radiology professor who hasn’t worked for 14 months while he continues his whistleblower lawsuit.District Judge Patrick Grady on Tuesday restored Malik...
Mar 29 2012 // The Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System has sued a New York-based auditing firm, alleging that the company failed to detect a theft scheme that cost the pension fund millions of dollars.The Des Moines Register...
Mar 27 2012 // Democrats and Republicans seem to agree that Iowa’s commercial property tax is archaic and out of line with other states, but hope is fading that the Legislature will approve a fix this year because of stark...
Mar 15 2012 // Lawmakers in Iowa have sent to the governor a bill increasing penalties for failing to heed school bus warning devices.Kadyn’s law is named after Kadyn Halverson, a 7-year-old girl who was killed in May when she was...
Feb 28 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has upgraded the financial strength rating to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good) and issuer credit rating to “a-” from “bbb+” of Petroleum Marketers Management Insurance Company (PMMIC) of...
Feb 24 2012 // An Iowa woman sickened by eating tainted sprouts filed a lawsuit against sandwich chain Jimmy John’s, the first stemming from a recent outbreak of a foodborne illness linked to the restaurant.Heather Tuttle, 27,...
Feb 22 2012 // A judge has ordered the operators of a popular pornographic website to pay $4 million for copyright infringement to an Iowa-based adult film company – a ruling that should serve as a deterrent to others who pirate...
Feb 22 2012 // A relatively snow-free winter in the Upper Midwest has some officials worried about damage to agriculture if the dry weather persists into spring planting.Minnesota’s agriculture and commerce commissioners, Dave...