For the first time in decades Iowa has a minority majority town, and a University of Iowa researcher said it shows how profoundly the cultural face of Iowa and the Midwest is changing. According to 2010 U.S. census data, the …
Tom Sanford stepped carefully through his tornado ravaged home in Mapleton, Iowa, his work shoes crunching on broken glass and wood splinters scattered across the floor. In the living room, next to his busted television, lay part of his neighbor’s …
A large tornado flattened a grain elevator and destroyed homes and buildings on its weekend rampage through the small western Iowa town of Mapleton. Authorities reported no serious injuries. “It was huge, just huge,” said Thomas Mohrhauser, an attorney in …
A Texas company is accused of severely abusing and discriminating against 31 mentally disabled men who worked at an Iowa turkey processor, in a federal lawsuit filed April 6 by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC field the …
A Des Moines, Iowa, couple says their former landlord is to blame for the death of their granddaughter and their own disabling injuries in a 2009 fire, according to their wrongful-death lawsuit. Sieh and Annie Toffoi said in the lawsuit …
An Iowa couple says their former landlord is to blame for the death of their granddaughter and their own disabling injuries in a 2009 fire, according to their wrongful-death lawsuit. Sieh and Annie Toffoi said in the lawsuit filed this …
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is seeking $200 million in long-term state financial aid to help pay the costs of a $375 million flood-control project to protect the city from another disaster similar to the floods of 2008. The Des Moines Register …
After completing a review of health insurer Wellmark’s November 2010 rate increase request, Iowa Insurance Commissioner Susan E. Voss has determined the company will not be allowed to raise individual health insurance policy base rates by 10.8 percent, as requested. …
The owner of a Des Moines employment agency has been indicted on federal fraud charges, accused of scheming to defraud insurance companies out of workers’ compensation premiums. Dan Sethi, of Ankeny, owns DES Staffing Services in Des Moines. An indictment …
The Des Moines River in Iowa is rising higher and more often, which means floods like those that swamped the city in 1993 and 2008 are more likely to occur again than experts had previously estimated, according to a study …
