They teach it in Salt Lake City, Little Rock, Cedar Rapids and 40 miles down the road in Rancho Cucamonga, a breakneck brand of baseball known as the Angel Way. It is highly entertaining -- stolen bases, hit-and-runs, speed merchants rushing from first to third in a blur -- but come playoff time it has been highly suspect.
As Dr. Jennifer Lickteig examines patients at the Linn Community Care Health Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she's also earning money from a second career that has nothing to do with medicine.
Doug Ward drives through a subdivision made up of rows of trailers. You can hear the sadness in his voice as he says, "This just doesn't feel like home." He longs for the life he lived before devastating floods destroyed his Cedar Rapids neighborhood.
The former manager of the largest U.S. kosher meatpacking plant was arrested Thursday on federal conspiracy charges of harboring illegal immigrants and aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft, federal officials said.
Carrying the painful lessons of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush
said on a tour of Midwest flooding on Thursday that he is listening
to small-town concerns and understands the exhaustion of
rescuers
They teach it in Salt Lake City, Little Rock, Cedar Rapids and 40 miles down the road in Rancho Cucamonga, a breakneck brand of baseball known as the Angel Way. It is highly entertaining -- stolen bases, hit-and-runs, speed merchants rushing from first to third in a blur -- but come playoff time it has been highly suspect.
As Dr. Jennifer Lickteig examines patients at the Linn Community Care Health Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she's also earning money from a second career that has nothing to do with medicine.
Doug Ward drives through a subdivision made up of rows of trailers. You can hear the sadness in his voice as he says, "This just doesn't feel like home." He longs for the life he lived before devastating floods destroyed his Cedar Rapids neighborhood.
The former manager of the largest U.S. kosher meatpacking plant was arrested Thursday on federal conspiracy charges of harboring illegal immigrants and aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft, federal officials said.
Carrying the painful lessons of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush
said on a tour of Midwest flooding on Thursday that he is listening
to small-town concerns and understands the exhaustion of
rescuers
Floodwaters inundated Iowa City and the University of Iowa arts campus on Sunday despite what one official called a "Herculean effort" to hold back the water with sandbags.
Floodwaters were receding Saturday in Cedar Rapids, but as the Cedar retreated, waters in Iowa City had already invaded parts of the University of Iowa campus and weren't expected to crest until sometime Monday
The worst flooding in 15 years has paralyzed large sections of eastern Iowa, with heavy rains and brutal storms leaving their marks from one end of the state to the other.
The Cedar River poured over its banks here Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets
With a wildly popular $100 million eco-education theme park, and citizens who self-inflict carbon-emissions caps, Britain aims to show the world how green living is done
While the meanings of monikers like Ethiopian, Hobokenite, and Earthling aren't hard to suss out, it's a little tougher to guess where to find a Moonraker or a Zonie. And why the heck are Oklahomans called "Sooners," anyway?
From Arnold Palmer to Phil Mickelson, the Masters has a long history of decisive final-hole dramatics, but this year's tournament was a Masters unlike any other, and so the ending was destined to be a little messy. After four days of exasperating golf, it figured that Zach Johnson would win his green jacket while slouched in the locker room, averting his eyes from a television because he couldn't bear to watch his fate unfold.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Asked to describe himself shortly after his Masters victory Sunday, Zach Johnson said, ``I'm from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. That's about it. I'm a normal guy.''
A backyard barbecue with more than 200 guests, an event center bustling with loyal Republicans at noon and a high school gym at capacity by 5 p.m.: It must be Iowa with presidential contenders in town.
While driving an 18-wheeler more than a million miles during his 52-year career, Charlie Ohman constantly dreamed of being a high school varsity basketball coach. At 74 that dream finally came true this season as he is currently in the midst of his first season as head coach at Westmoor (Daly City, Calif.) High.
In United States v. Hill, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit recently held that under some circumstances, there is no continuing Fourth Amendment right to privacy in a public restroom.
Across Iowa on Monday, Democratic presidential hopefuls stormed restaurants, fairgrounds, high schools and just about any place they could find an audience in an effort to bring supporters out to the evening caucuses.
It's very low-tech stuff at a very high-tech company. On the wall of a meeting room off the mezzanine of Rockwell Collins' factory in Coralville, Iowa, Cindy Mingo and a half-dozen fellow workers a...
Most CEOs may know how to run their companies, but when it comes to taxes, they run for help. With the notable exception of Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, who for the most part does his own t...
A Cedar Rapids, Iowa jury has found that Charles J. Givens Jr., the flamboyant financial guru and author of the Simon & Schuster bestsellers Wealth Without Risk and More Wealth Without Risk, made 2...
The Iowa caucuses won't kick off the 1992 presidential season for another 18 months, but a few early-bird Democrats have already visited the state to press the flesh of party faithful and other vot...
Below the Big Three long-distance phone carriers -- AT&T, MCI, and Sprint -- some 400 smaller companies fight over the remaining scraps of the market. Most are doomed, and competition for survival ...
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