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Iowa dips into savings to balance its budget (The Des Moines Register) (Cached page) Vastly different estimates were released Wednesday on how Iowa ended its fiscal year this week, but all projections indicate that Gov. Chet Culver will have to use cash reserves to balance the state budget. Guard chooses Iowa (The Indianapolis Star) (Cached page) Ben Brust, a 6-2 guard from Mundelein, Ill., who had been recruited by Butler, announced he will accept a scholarship from Iowa. He will be a high school senior in 2009-10. Same-sex marriage applications booming in Iowa (The Gazette) (Cached page) Since an Iowa Supreme Court ruling made same-sex marriage legal April 27, 100 same-sex marriage applications have been taken out in Johnson County and 71 in Linn County, according to county recorders.The data also show nearly 75 percent of the same-sex couples obtaining marriage licenses in the two-county area were women. In about 30 percent of the applications, both partners listed out-of-state ... Former players mourn loss of legendary Iowa prep coach (The Argus Leader) (Cached page) Evan Capper reacted with shock and horror, like most everyone else, upon hearing that legendary Iowa prep football coach Ed Thomas was shot to death by a former player. "I got a phone call from someone who said they'd heard something happened, but we thought it couldn't be true," said Capper, a University of South Dakota sophomore nose tackle who was an all-state lineman for Thomas at ... Fredericksburg man sentenced for Iowa City VA assault (The Gazette) (Cached page) IOWA CITY and#151; Randy J. Davidson, 46, of Fredericksburg, was sentenced on Wednesday to 12 months and one day in prison for assaulting a Veterans Affairs police officer in Iowa City last October.United States Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker announced Davidsonand#146;s sentencing for one count of assault with a dangerous weapon within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the ... Officials look into hospital's release of Iowa shooting suspect (Post-Bulletin) (Cached page) Â DES MOINES, Iowa -- A Republican lawmaker is calling for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding a hospital's release of a man who was later charged with gunning down a prominent Iowa high school football coach KWWL.com - News & Weather for Waterloo, Dubuque, Cedar Rapids & Iowa City, Iowa | Hamilton goes 1 for 7 in AAA rehab ... (KWWL Iowa) (Cached page) DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton went 1 for 7 and struck out twice as the designated hitter for AAA Oklahoma City in a rehab start Wednesday night. Protest greets Iowa City Shelter House groundbreaking (The Gazette) (Cached page) Ground was broken Wednesday for the long-delayed Iowa City Shelter House but not without protest over the site. Members of the Waterfront Neighborhood Association contend that the Shelter House will violate a new sex offender law that went into effect Wednesday. The law creates 300-foot exclusionary zones around such places as schools, day-care facilities and parks where children gather to keep ... Northern Iowa Sr. lineman arrested after assault (Sports Illustrated) (Cached page) ARNOLDS PARK, Iowa (AP) -- Northern Iowa offensive lineman Austin Steichen and two other men have been arrested in connection with an alleged assault. Lieutenant governor hits road to promote Iowa tourist spots (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier) (Cached page) DES MOINES --- Lt. Gov. Patty Judge kicked off a 67-stop summer travel tour of Iowa Wednesday to highlight the state's tourist attractions and festivals. Iowa Public Radio cuts nine jobs (The Des Moines Register) (Cached page) Iowa Public Radio will cut nine positions as it completes a merger of three radio groups into a statewide network. Iowa Court Overturns Conviction in OWI Case (KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids) (Cached page) DES MOINES (AP) - The Iowa Court of Appeals has overturned an operating-while-intoxicated conviction because a defendant's urine sample was given involuntarily. Iowa Awarded $10.5 Million to Fight Alcohol Abuse (KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids) (Cached page) DES MOINES - The state of Iowa has been awarded $10.5 million to reduce binge and underage drinking, and the problems associated with both. Iowa City neighbors protest homeless shelter construction (The Des Moines Register) (Cached page) Locals are protesting the groundbreaking on construction of a homeless shelter in Iowa City that officials hope to have completed by October 2010. Tax credit could lift Iowa children out of poverty, advocates say (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier) (Cached page) DES MOINES --- Iowa should boost its tax credit to low-income working families to lift thousands of children out of poverty, an Iowa City think tank says. Iowa Public Radio cutting nine jobs (The Gazette) (Cached page) IOWA CITY and#151; Iowa Public Radio will cut nine positions this year in an effort to save money as part of a reorganization.Four of the nine positions are already vacant and will remain unfilled. Of the remaining five, two people qualify for early retirement and one employee will be shifted to a different position. The other two will be laid off.The reduction of nine jobs is 14 percent of the ... Brust trusts his instincts, commits to Iowa (Daily Herald) (Cached page) A cancelled flight wasn't going to stop Todd Lickliter. Back in April, the Iowa men's basketball coach was determined to make it to an open gym to see Mundelein star guard Ben Brust in action. Iowa school abandons site of fatal shooting (KTTC Rochester) (Cached page) PARKERSBURG, Iowa (AP) -- Aplington-Parkersburg High School officials plan to move the school's weight room to a private residence after a fatal shooting last week. News courtesy of 
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