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The bipartisan Iowa Legislature?s Emergency Medical Services Study Committee completed two days of discussions on the state of emergency medical services in Iowa, and possible improvements.Legislators are interested in ways to ensure all Iowans have access to high quality, life-saving emergency medical services, regardless of where they live.A key goal is to better support the volunteers who make up the ...

When a cluster of violent thunderstorms began marching across the Midwest, forecasters were able to draw a bright line on a map showing where the worst of the weather would go.Their uncannily accurate predictions ? combined with television and radio warnings, text-message alerts and storm sirens ? almost certainly saved lives as rare late-season tornadoes dropped out of a dark autumn sky.Although the storms ...

In solemnity, thousands gathered on a central Pennsylvania battlefield park today to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted would not be long remembered.The inspirational and famously short Gettysburg Address was praised for reinvigorating national ideals of freedom, liberty and justice amid a Civil War that had torn the country into pieces.?President Lincoln sought to heal ...

All Iowa Department of Transportation business locations will be closed Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28 and the following day, Nov. 29.Motor Carrier Services? permit center ?The IDOT?s Office of Vehicle and Motor Carrier Services? permit center normally open Monday through Friday will resume normal operations at 8 a.m. Dec. 2.Because the Office of Vehicle and Motor Carrier Services in Ankeny typically experiences a ...

Today?s kids can?t keep up with their parents.An analysis of studies on millions of children around the world finds they don?t run as fast or as far as their parents did when they were young.On average, it takes children 90 seconds longer to run a mile than their counterparts did 30 years ago. Heart-related fitness has declined 5 percent per decade since 1975 for children ages 9 to 17.The American Heart ...

WATERLOO (GTNS) ? Two Solon High School students were hospitalized Thursday night after a rollover accident that officials say was caused in part because of an incident between Solon and Washington students following Solon?s loss to Washington in the state football semifinals in Cedar Falls.According to a press release from the Black Hawk County Sheriff?s Office, two Solon students were injured in the single-vehi...

More than three dozen Iowa Army National Guard soldiers are being mobilized for peacekeeping duty in southeastern Europe.The National Guard said Monday that a community send-off ceremony is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. Friday at the Boone High School gym for members of Company B, 248th Aviation Support Battalion. The Boone-based unit has detachments in Waterloo and Davenport.The soldiers will first go to Fort ...

The Sieda Jefferson County Resource Center is taking applications for its energy assistance program.The program is known as Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and Sieda began taking applications for it Nov. 1. Households can apply for the program through April 30, 2014. The program pays for a portion of a household?s heating costs according to the family?s income and its size.In order for a single ...

MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) ? For the second time, a judge Friday declared a mistrial in the case of a former Iowa jail guard charged in the shooting death of his pregnant wife.Prosecutors vowed to retry the case.Judge Daniel Wilson granted the defense?s motion for a mistrial after the Henry County jury of six men and six women said they were deadlocked and couldn?t reach a verdict in the trial of Seth Techel.?I want ...

The public is invited to attend a homecoming ceremony for an Ottumwa-based Iowa Army National Guard unit that has been serving in Afghanistan.The ceremony will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Evans Middle School gym in Ottumwa.They?ll mark the return of soldiers mobilized from the 833rd Engineer Company with a mission of removing physical obstacles, identifying and reducing minefields and bombs, constructing ...

Jefferson County Board of Supervisors today approved becoming part of the planning and development of the mental health region in Southeast Iowa because the state has denied the county?s request to remain a stand-alone county/region.Iowa passed legislation that mental health and disability services be provided by counties operating together as regions. Jefferson County had submitted an appeal to let the county ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Former energy company executive Mark Jacobs said Tuesday that he will run as a Republican for Iowa?s open U.S. Senate seat in 2014.Jacobs, 51, announced his plans at a news conference at a Des Moines-based business supply company founded and run by his family.The former chief executive officer of Texas-based Reliant Energy said that as a senator, he?d focus on job creation and economic ...