Despite efforts by faculty and staff to educate students about sexual assault prevention and reporting, colleges and universities in Iowa struggle to measure how effective these initiatives are on their campuses.
I first encountered Smith on the school bus 1977. I was 6 years old, and he was 16, a journalist and native Iowan writes in this first-person examination for the Investigative Reporting Workshop into the life of an Iowa pedophile.
Lake Mills residents were very excited on October 10, 1896, when word spread around town that a desperate and dangerous bank robber had been captured. Everybody believed he was one
The Reid Technique is used by police and government investigators, security and loss prevention experts. Before the interrogation, investigators conduct a behavioral analysis interview to identify signs of deception.
Many researchers describe the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation as the gold standard for interrogating criminal suspects. But the fact that more than a fourth of wrongly convicted suspects gave false confessions has critics assailing the technique.
As the coach rounded the bridge at Walnut Creek, nine miles west of Centerville, the passenger on the driver’s box pulled out a revolver and jabbed it into the left breast of drive F.J. Leach. Here's the rest of the story.
Iowa History, a weekly column, appears at IowaWatch on Saturdays.
Cheryl Mullenbach is a former history teacher, newspaper editor, and public television project manager. She is the author of four
Once thought to be on a downward spiral, recent criminal reports indicate meth use is climbing again. In fact, Illinois registered the fifth-most meth lab seizures and arrests in the country last year, behind Missouri, Tennessee, Indiana and Kentucky.
Dave Selmon says there is no right way to do wrong.
“It will catch up with you sooner or later,” the 56-year-old Burlington man said, tapping a lifetime
U.S. Census data show where black and Latino Iowans have fallen behind white Iowans when it comes to income, jobs, home ownership and high school and college degrees. IowaWatch obtained an analysis of 50 years of U.S. Census data from the Colorado-based public service journalism organization I-News,
