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Local News from KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids via Yahoo! News

Development Halted on Coal-Fired Power Plant

Jan 6, 2009 6:51 pm

WATERLOO - Development will not continue on a proposed 750-megawatt coal fired energy plant. LS Power says that it will fore go further development of the Elk Run Energy Station in Waterloo, Iowa.

 

New Census Office Brings 1000+ Jobs to Eastern Iowa

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 pm

CEDAR RAPIDS - U.S. Census Bureau officials' announcement Tuesday at the BRIDGE in Cedar Rapids meant the creation of more than a thousand jobs to fill the needs of their new office in eastern Iowa.

 

Bar Owners Resist Underage Permits

Jan 6, 2009 5:06 pm

FORT DODGE (AP) - Some Fort Dodge bar owners aren't happy with a proposed city permit that would allow minors into bars after 10 p.m. The permits still need to be approved by the Fort Dodge city counc...

 

Contract Talks to Resume at GPC in Muscatine

Jan 6, 2009 5:05 pm

MUSCATINE (AP) - Contract talks are to resume Friday between union and management at Grain Processing Corp. in Muscatine. A federal mediator and the two sides will discuss a contract offer proposed by...

 

Judge Certifies Class Action in Deere Lawsuit

Jan 6, 2009 5:05 pm

DES MOINES (AP) - A lawsuit against Deere & Co. filed by a group of retirees has been certified as a class action. The judge in Iowa made that ruling last month in the lawsuit filed by the Flex Re...

 

SW Iowa Teen Injured in Hunting Accident

Jan 6, 2009 5:05 pm

DES MOINES (AP) - A Lenox teenager has been injured in a hunting accident near his hometown in southwest Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says Ely Will, 15, accidentally shot himself in ...

 

Man Rescued After Fall from Bridge

Jan 6, 2009 2:51 pm

DES MOINES (AP) - Des Moines police have found a man who fell from a bridge a day earlier. Police say Tom Coffin, 41, likely suffered a broken leg when he fell off a Hartford Avenue bridge sometime on...

 

Fire Damages Trucks at Ottumwa Trucking Company

Jan 6, 2009 2:50 pm

OTTUWMA (AP) - Fire investigators are looking for what caused a fire that damaged several semitrailers at a trucking company in Ottumwa. Five trucks caught fire at Hite Trucking Inc. on Saturday. The ...

 

Flooded Taylor School Reconstruction Starts

Jan 6, 2009 3:05 am

CEDAR RAPIDS - Just inside the doors of Taylor elementary, Garling Construction is putting on a clinic in building quickly. They've got about five months to make this empty space, look like the inside...

 

Big Ol' Fish -- January 5th, 2009

Jan 6, 2009 1:05 am

CEDAR RAPIDS - Watch the video (below photo at left) to see the catch this week! *Please include your phone number so we can let you know when you'll be on the air, and address so we can return your p...

 
 

Local News from Southwest Iowa News via Yahoo! News

Grobe denies board conflict

Jan 6, 2009 5:06 pm

Questions have surfaced about whether a newly seated member of the Pottawattamie County Board should continue to serve on the Iowa West Foundation board.

 

A.L. staff: Andreasen was popular, outspoken

Jan 6, 2009 5:06 pm

Abraham Lincoln High School history teacher Dirk Waller said Ashley Renee Andreasen was the type of student with whom he enjoyed working. "She was a complete straight shooter.

 

Lethal injection backed in survey

Jan 6, 2009 3:36 pm

LINCOLN -- Since the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled 11 months ago that electrocution was cruel and unusual punishment, the state has been without a legal means to carry out the death penalty.

 

Vandalized museum to reopen

Jan 6, 2009 3:36 pm

The University of NebraskaLincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art will reopen today for the first time following vandalism at the building last week.

 

Glad to help out

Jan 6, 2009 2:51 pm

Editor's Note: In honor of January being National Mentoring Month, the Valley News will be spotlighting a local Mentoring Affects Youth (MAY) mentor each week.

 

SW Iowa Events

Jan 6, 2009 5:21 am

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Teen injured in skiing accident

Jan 5, 2009 5:21 pm

CRESCENT - A Villisca teen was seriously injured after a skiing wreck at the Mount Crescent Ski Resort Friday. Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker said Joel Herzberg, 18, was taken by air ambulan...

 

Election 2008 Coverage

Jan 5, 2009 5:21 pm

Staff photo/Josh White - Bob Scott and several other supporters stand and applaud Sen. Barack Obama as they celebrate his victory in the general election Tuesday evening at Amerisports Bar and Grill.

 

'She always said she'd never fight them'

Jan 5, 2009 4:51 pm

Laura S. Pierce was tall and shy. Her hair was short and dark, her eyes a soft blue-green. The 42-year-old convenience store clerk had a gentle spirit, family members and friends say.

 

Interactive exhibit challenges, entertains in field of aviation

Jan 5, 2009 4:51 pm

Matt Walters held his 4-year-old daughter's hand Sunday afternoon as she balanced atop a beam, guiding her safely across. "Don't look down,'' he told Anna, as she pretended to be three stories hi...

 
 

News from the Sioux City Journal

Pride of the Dutchmen band earns bronze in Phoenix

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 am

ORANGE CITY, Iowa -- The Pride of the Dutchmen Marching Band from MOC-Floyd Valley High School in Orange City earned third place Saturday at the 2009 Fort McDowell Fiesta Bowl Parade in Phoenix.

 

Mardi Gras kickoff celebration set today

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 am

SIOUX CITY -- Sioux City's 2009 Mardi Gras celebration begins today with a free Twelfth Night Celebration at Court Street Tavern.

 

Dakota Avenue paving wins excellence award

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 am

SOUTH SIOUX CITY -- The Dakota Avenue paving project that kept motorists in South Sioux City on detours much of the summer and fall has received the 2008 Award of Excellence in Concrete Paving in the ...

 

Conservation Board offers OWLS program

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 am

SIOUX CITY -- OWLS (Older, Wiser, Livelier Souls) is a new program being offered by the Woodbury County Conservation Board.

 

Council repeals city handbill law

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 am

SIOUX CITY -- City lawmakers Monday repealed a city law prohibiting people from placing handbills and signs under vehicles' windshield wipers.

 

Council moves to allow promotional banners

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 am

SIOUX CITY -- When the city hangs banners advertising Broadway shows, monster truck events or concerts from city buildings and skywalks, it's breaking the law.

 

Council authorizes issuing general obligation bonds

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 am

SIOUX CITY -- Within the next two months, the city will borrow $19.7 million in general obligation bonds to pay for a host of city construction projects, as a result of City Council action Monday.

 

City waives plan for riverfront convenience store

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 am

The owners of the Mlr Tym Marina, Bev's on the River and the Hilton Garden Inn won't have to build a convenience store nearby as called for in the original development agreement with the city.

 

Tyson Foods CEO Bond resigns

Jan 6, 2009 6:20 am

DAKOTA DUNES -- In an abrupt move, Tyson Foods president and CEO Dick Bond stepped down from his posts Monday, describing the decision as in the "best interest'' for himself and the world's large...

 
 

News from Eastern Iowa from the Quad City Times

Burris denied seat on U.S. Senate

Jan 6, 2009 4:41 pm

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News from The Des Moines Register

Backer pulls out of Waterloo coal plant project

Jan 6, 2009 6:32 pm

Loss of financial backing killed a $1.3 billion proposal to build a new coal-fired power plant in Waterloo, LS Power announced Tuesday.

 

SW Iowa teen injured in hunting accident

Jan 6, 2009 3:28 pm

A Lenox teenager has been injured in a hunting accident near his hometown in southwest Iowa.

 

Today’s Inbox: CIETC leader should quit complaining

Jan 6, 2009 2:54 pm

It is unbelievable to think that a convicted CIETC leader, Ramona Cunningham, wants honest Iowa taxpayers to pay for her sentencing appeal via a court-appointed attorney. Defend yourself or have a fam...

 

Des Moines man caught driving without a license -- again

Jan 6, 2009 1:34 pm

A Des Moines man has been charged with driving while his license was suspended, revoked or barred for the fifth time since 2005.

 

Des Moines police seek robber at homeless shelters

Jan 6, 2009 12:14 pm

Des Moines police are searching for a man who committed a robbery with a knife about noon on Monday.

 

Bar owners resist underage permits

Jan 6, 2009 12:09 pm

FORT DODGE, Iowa - Some Fort Dodge bar owners aren’t happy with a proposed city permit that would allow minors into bars after 10 p.m.

 

Inauguration ticket lists kept secret

Jan 6, 2009 4:05 am

Mum’s the word from members of Iowa’s congressional delegation on who’s getting highly coveted tickets to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama.

 

Carlson: Music lives, and so does Big Bopper casket story

Jan 6, 2009 4:03 am

The news hit the wires hard and fast, reported on TV and in the newspapers along with deadly Gaza rocket attacks and the Obama girls’ first day of school:

 

Dateline Iowa

Jan 6, 2009 4:00 am

Roundup of news from across Iowa

 

GOP leadership: Halve budgets, then negotiate

Jan 6, 2009 3:55 am

First, cut in half the money given to each state agency. Then ask leaders of those agencies to explain why they should get as much money as last year, Republican state lawmakers said Monday.

 
 
 

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