State legislators are expected to consider a bill to ease parts of a controversial Iowa law allowing imprisonment of HIV-infected people for up to 25 years if they don’t reveal their condition before having “intimate contact” with another person.
A research poster about IowaWatch and non-profit journalism has been recognized as an “Outstanding Poster Presentation” by judges at 7th Annual Spring Undergraduate Research Festival at the University of Iowa. Lauren Mills, a reporter and the assistant editor-designate of IowaWatch, prepared the pos
IOWA CITY -- A police officer fired a gun in the Old Capitol Mall, just a couple hundred feet from stores, a medical clinic and University of Iowa offices. University officials call the 2009 incident an “accidental discharge” and say nobody was injured. But they refused to disclose who did it, how i
Although a proposal in the state legislature to temporarily suspend use of sabbaticals at Iowa universities has been weakened, discontent in academia continues.
The last time Nikki Russell hugged her grandpa, she felt disgusted. She wanted to get as far away from him as possible. His embrace triggered too many disturbing memories from her childhood. Nikki Russell, 28, of Ames, Iowa, is a victim of child sexual abuse. For years Russell suffered from severe
