In another case involving a University of Iowa faculty member and allegations of sexual misconduct, an assistant professor who has been on paid leave for two years went on trial to face charges that he assaulted and sexually abused his lab assistant. Toshiki Itoh, 47, a faculty member in the Departm
If voters approve the referendum, the next sales tax increase would generate millions of dollars for cleaning Iowa’s filthy waters, to help stop farm soil from washing into its streams and rivers and to develop new parks and trails.
When Brian Hornbuckle cranes his neck to the nighttime sky, he’s probably not pondering the beauty of the constellations, but thinking about what’s in the Iowa soil right under his feet. Yet he’s neither absent-minded, nor a contradiction. He’s just a man who has found his niche – where astronomy, p
The overall number of violent crimes and thefts at the University of Iowa is down, but another old scourge appears to be making a comeback – illegal drug use. A new crime report to be released by the University of Iowa revealed that drug abuse violations have shot up by almost 40 percent since 2007
Children and teens in youth groups, clubs, school organizations are among common peddlers of magazine subscriptions in Johnson County neighborhoods. But sometimes they aren’t who they say they are, and the publications they promise to send will never come.
The Iowa Independent, a non-profit news organization, is reporting today that, the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal society founded in New Haven in 1881, has funneled more than
This report tells the story of Anthony's life and how a childhood decision has affected his entire life thus far. A federal law requiring juvenile sex offenders to register as predators for life does more harm than good.
After officials at the University of Colorado-Boulder announced it would replace its journalism school with an information, communication and technology program, Micheal Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School of
LOS ANGELES – The inaugural CEO of the newly-formed Investigative News Network, Kevin Davis, spoke this month at a gathering at the University of Southern California about “pioneering new economic
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As those of you who have followed our adventure into the wilds of the non-profit journalism movement may know, last week was one we would
