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Iowa City Hospice support groups form (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)     (Cached page)
Iowa City Hospice, a nonprofit organization, is offering support groups for patients, families and loved ones throughout the dying and grieving processes.

Iowa Cubs: Ninth-inning double dooms Iowa on the road (The Des Moines Register)     (Cached page)
Reggie Abercrombie doubled in Jason Smith in the ninth inning to lift Round Rock to a 6-5 Pacific Coast League win Saturday over the Iowa Cubs.

Iowa Democrats honor Vilsack on trip back to home state (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)     (Cached page)
DES MOINES — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack compared his new job to being governor of 50 states instead of one — a job that encompasses a wide range of policy matters he tackled as Iowa’s governor.

Iowa State researchers find declining wind speeds could impact wind energy (Grand Island Independent)     (Cached page)
AMES, Iowa -- Declining wind speeds in parts of the United States could impact more than the wind power industry, say Iowa State University climate researchers.

Round Rock returns home, beats Iowa (News 8 Austin)     (Cached page)
ROUND ROCK – J.R. Towles and John Gall formed a two-man wrecking crew Saturday, but Reggie Abercrombie stole the show with a walk-off double in the bottom of the ninth inning as Round Rock (33-42) topped Iowa (40-35), 6-5.

Southwest Iowa Families, Inc. receives grant (Clarinda Herald-Journal)     (Cached page)
Dee Fischer, Area Specialist with USDA Rural Development, was in Clarinda on Thursday, June 11 for a recognition event at Southwest Iowa Families, Inc.

Gelding Terrain euthanized after Iowa Derby (The Des Moines Register)     (Cached page)
Terrain, who pulled up in Friday’s Iowa Derby, came out of the race with broken sesamoid bones in his right front ankle and had to be euthanized.

25-year-old Iowa woman dies in blaze (WOI-TV Des Moines)     (Cached page)
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) - Authorities have identified a 25-year-old northeastern Iowa woman who died in an electrical home fire. Fire officials in Decorah said Saturday that Chelsea Hart died early Friday in the blaze. Officials say the fire started because of an electrical power failure.

Iowa State University holds commencement (Clarinda Herald-Journal)     (Cached page)
At Iowa State University's spring commencement ceremonies, 3,015 students received degrees. Iowa State awarded 2,441 undergraduate degrees, 356 master's degrees, 113 veterinary medicine degrees and 105 doctor of philosophy degrees.

Iowa holds on 55-54 over Amarillo (OurSports Central)     (Cached page)
Amarillo, TX - When you thought the Amarillo Dusters could not be heartbroken anymore this season, it happened again, falling by one point to the Iowa Barnstormers 55-54 Saturday night.

Visitation held for slain Iowa football coach (USA Today)     (Cached page)
The sons of a high school coach in Iowa who was gunned down last week say they mourned their father privately at the football fields where he held practice.

Iowa DOT Blocks Facebook, Twitter (KCCI 8 Des Moines)     (Cached page)
The Iowa Department of Transportation blocks the use of several online social networking sites from employee work computers because of security concerns.

Iowa DOT limits employee social networking at work (WOI-TV Des Moines)     (Cached page)
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Department of Transportation has blocked the use of several online social networking sites from employee work computers because of security concerns.

Visitation held for slain Iowa football coach (WKBT La Crosse)     (Cached page)
Associated Press - June 28, 2009 2:03 PM ET PARKERSBURG, Iowa (AP) - The sons of a high school coach in Iowa who was gunned down last week say they mourned their father privately at the...

Iowa coach who helped launch NFL careers is slain (10:15 a.m.) (Sun Star)     (Cached page)
PARKERSBURG, Iowa -- A high school coach who helped launch several professional football careers was gunned down by a former player Wednesday morning in front of students taking part in an offseason w read more

Visitation held for slain Iowa coach (WOI-TV Des Moines)     (Cached page)
PARKERSBURG, Iowa (AP) - The sons of slain high school coach Ed Thomas say they mourned their father privately at the football fields where he held practice.

Iowa DOT blocks tweets over security concerns (The Des Moines Register)     (Cached page)
Don’t try tweeting if you work for the Iowa Department of Transportation.

Psychiatric services faulted at many hospitals in Iowa (The Des Moines Register)     (Cached page)
Several Iowa hospitals, including one at the center of a controversy involving the shooting death of a Parkersburg coach, have been accused in recent years of discharging psychiatric patients before they were stabilized.

Iowa man sentenced for theft from evacuated homes (WOI-TV Des Moines)     (Cached page)
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - A Washington, Iowa, man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for stealing guns from homes that had been evacuated during the record floods of 2008.




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