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The State of Iowa is a state in the midwestern region of the United States of America. It is the 29th state of the United States, having joined the Union on December 28, 1846. The state is named for the Native American Ioway people. It is known as the "Hawkeye State" or the "Tall Corn State".

 

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

Flashes of Hope

May 11, 2008 10:34 pm

MARION -- Doctors diagnose thousands of children with cancer every year. It's a heartbreaking, difficult situation for parents and kids to understand and handle.

 

Observatory Celebrates New Telescope

May 11, 2008 2:34 am

LINN COUNTY - How about a close encounter with space in our own backyard. The Eastern Iowa Observatory and Learning Center in Linn County celebrated its grand opening Saturday afternoon by showing off...

 

Iowa Chess Player Takes on World Champ

May 11, 2008 2:34 am

CEDAR RAPIDS - A local chess player just got back from playing a world champion chess player...in Bulgaria. Jason Juett has been playing chess since he was five. His grandpa taught him to play.

 

Bees Leaving Hives

May 11, 2008 2:04 am

Bee pollination contributes 15 billion dollars to the food industry. Fruits, nuts, and even some vegetables rely on pollination from bees. But now, bees here and across the country are mysteriously ab...

 

Fuel Prices Could Hurt Flower Deliveries

May 10, 2008 4:34 pm

CEDAR RAPIDS - Records highs at the pump are hurting drivers across the nation. In Cedar Rapids, TV9 found the price for regular unleaded between $3.45 and $3.65.

 

Short Police Pursuit Ends with Driver in Farm Field

May 10, 2008 10:49 am

CEDAR RAPIDS - A car with stolen plates accelerates from Cedar Rapids Police during an attempted stop Friday night. The pursuit went south on Williams Blvd. SW to Highway 30 westbound, just after 11:3...

 

Cedar Rapids Leader is Leaving the Limelight

May 10, 2008 3:49 am

CEDAR RAPIDS - Friday the president and C-E-O of the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, Lee Clancey, announced she will step down from that job on September first. But Clancey isn't just leaving h...

 

Two Dubuque Schools Could Close

May 9, 2008 11:19 pm

Dubuque - An effort to stay out of debt could mean two Dubuque public schools will close. The Dubuque district announced a proposal to shut down the Central Alternative High School and the Jones Speci...

 

Culver Signs School Funds

May 9, 2008 9:04 pm

BETTENDORF (AP) - Governor Culver has signed into law a $1.3 billion spending package for education. It finances the next step in raising teacher pay and expanding preschool programs. Culver made them...

 

Rising Cost of Food Worries School Lunch Managers

May 9, 2008 8:49 pm

CEDAR RAPIDS- The rising cost of food could mean digging deeper to pay for school lunches in the future. And some districts could have a better idea how much in just a few weeks.

 
 

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SW Iowa Events

May 12, 2008 4:17 am

approximately every other month, as scheduled. Fridays during Lent.

 

Saturday's Our View: What's in a word?

May 12, 2008 4:15 am

Recently the Department of Homeland Security came out with a report on the proper verbal etiquette federal agencies should use in talking about the terrorists who are trying to kill us all.

 

Lancers go overtime to win Clark Cup

May 12, 2008 4:15 am

Is there anything better than overtime in a winner-take-all game of a championship series?

 

Turin man charged with 'iguana theft'

May 11, 2008 4:01 pm

A Turin man was charged with robbery after sticking an iguana down his pants. Andrew Lien, 21, was arrested Friday after entering The Birdcage, 2719 E. Kanesville Blvd., and allegedly putting an iguan...

 

Finding fault a good thing

May 11, 2008 4:01 pm

Iowa School for the Deaf seniors Heather Nurse and Zachary Engstler and ISD high school science teacher Michael George spent May 4 through 10 in southern California studying the San Andreas earthquake...

 

UP Museum marks 5 years

May 11, 2008 4:00 pm

Five distinct "pings" and the ceremonial "golden" spike sent the scent of creosote into the air as the spike bore its way into the railroad tie resting on the floor of the former C...

 

Supervisors to appoint interim county attorney, assistants

May 11, 2008 4:00 pm

The Crawford County Board of Supervisors will meet tomorrow (Saturday, May 10) at 8 a.m. and appoint Michael Mundt of Denison as part-time interim county attorney.

 

Sunday's Our View: Political expedient

May 11, 2008 3:45 pm

Gov. Chet Culver traveled to Fort Madison Friday - home to one of the oldest prisons in the nation - to sign into law a measure setting aside more than $200 million for renovations to several faciliti...

 

Southwest Iowa 'Summer Fun Bus' rides again

May 11, 2008 7:19 am

The Southwest Iowa Transit Agency (SWITA) is planning on running a Summer Fun Bus program again in Shenandoah. The program is designed to help parents and kids have safe, affordable transportation for...

 

Heslinga accepts assistant principal job in Missouri

May 11, 2008 7:19 am

Shenandoah High School principal Chris Heslinga has been hired by a Smithville, Mo. school district to take over the assistant principal position there.

 
 

News from the Sioux City Journal

Fire damages home in Norfolk

May 12, 2008 5:47 am

A fire in the attic damaged a Norfolk, Neb., home Sunday, although no inuries were reported.

 

Frontier leaves Sioux City today

May 12, 2008 5:47 am

Frontier Airlines departs Sioux City for Denver for the last time today.

 

Girl suffers dog bites on arm

May 12, 2008 5:47 am

SIOUX CITY -- Makayla Nellist gently held her arm as her father, Michael, led her down the steps of their northside home.

 
 

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