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IOWA CITY (AP) ? A powerful University of Iowa administrator who has helped build and manage its sprawling health care enterprise announced plans today to step down. University vice president Jean Robillard said he will resign his role in which he serves as dean of the medical school and top administrator for the school?s hospital and clinics network. While the announcement caught some employees by surprise, ...

?We?re in the supervisors business ? we?re not in the farming business,? Jefferson County Supervisor Dick Reed said during an interview today about a portion of land the county owns. Monday, Reed along with supervisor Lee Dimmitt ? supervisor Becky Schmitz was absent ? decided to table a discussion about moving forward with the process of selling the 106 acres of county-owned land on 250th Street, until after ...

Election Day is nearing and absentee voting in Iowa starts Thursday.Ballots will be available from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. until Nov. 7 at the Jefferson County Auditor?s office, on the first floor of the courthouse.The auditor?s office will also be open until 5 p.m. Nov. 4, as well as until 5 p.m. Oct. 29 and Nov. 5., which are the two Saturdays before the Nov. 8 General Election.Those choosing to vote early can ...

IOWA CITY (AP) ? The Iowa City Board of Adjustment has again delayed a ruling on whether to let a couple build a 7,500-square-foot home designed to resemble Kinnick Stadium. An appeal of the city?s building permit was scheduled for a vote Wednesday night after an earlier vote delay, but now the decision has been delayed until next Wednesday. A group called the Neighbors of Manville Heights Association and ...

DES MOINES ? People with private drinking wells in flooded areas are being urged by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to use caution before using water from those sources. Extensive rainfall and the resulting flooding over portions of north central and northeast Iowa have also caused a number of wastewater treatment facilities to overflow. Some of the facilities have had to bypass untreated wastewater to ...

DES MOINES ? (AP) ? Authorities in several Iowa cities were mobilizing resources today to handle flooding from a rain-swollen river that has forced evacuations in several communities upstream, while a Wisconsin town was recovering from storms now blamed for two deaths. More rain fell Thursday night and early today in the area, and the National Weather Service said the threat for more rain and flash-flooding ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A case of leprosy, extremely rare in the United States, has been diagnosed in a Southern California elementary school student, sending health officials scrambling to reassure parents and the public that the disease is hard to transmit and easy to treat. Two children from Indian Hills Elementary School in Jurupa Valley had initially been diagnosed by a local doctor with the condition known ...

JOHNSTON ? The National Educational Telecommunications Association honored Iowa Public Television with an award for excellence for the 2015 Iowa State Fair -Special Event Promotion. The awards presentation was a highlight of NETA?s annual professional development conference, held this week in Baltimore, Maryland. IPTV has covered the Iowa State Fair for 46 years, and in 2015, IPTV launched a new, interactive ...

The Fairfield Police Department reports the following incidents logged into dispatch: Thursday8:25 a.m. ? Aideen Marie Vega-Vanauken was cited for speeding.10:18 a.m. ? Deborah Carruthers, 61, of Birmingham was arrested for fifth-degree theft.10:50 a.m. ? A no-injury accident occurred on Highway 1 and Fourth Street. Louis Dondanville was stopped in traffic waiting to turn in a private driveway, when Cassy ...

CLARKSVILLE (AP) ? The police chief says several people have been forced from their Clarksville homes by floodwater from the swollen Shell Rock River. Chief Barry Mackey said this morning that water overtopped the levee that runs down the east side of the river west of the Butler County community of about 1,400 people. The chief says several homes are surrounded by water, including his. He spoke from the home of ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ? Cheers erupted as lights slowly began to flicker on across Puerto Rico overnight as the U.S. territory struggled to emerge from an island-wide blackout following a power plant fire Wednesday that caused the aging utility grid to fail. More than 390,000 of 1.5 million homes and businesses served by the power utility had electricity restored by late Thursday. Gov. Alejandro Garcia ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A driver who caused a fatal hit-and-run crash in Des Moines has been sentenced to five years in prison. Television station KCCI reports that 21-year-old Ray Alexander Sangster was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty in August to leaving the scene of a crash causing death. Police say Sangster was behind the wheel on April 6 when he hit 37-year-old Constantino Ayala as Ayala was crossing ...