A year ago, water consumed many parts of Iowa. Citizens of the Iowa City/Coralville area as well as the UI community adjusted their lives around water blocking their streets, sidewalks, and inside their...

Ryan Megan moved from Iowa City — where he was born, raised, attended Kirkwood, and eventually dropped out — to Dutchess County, N.Y., seven years ago to pursue a job in television. Megan will visit...

In 1961, at the start of the Kennedy administration, I went to work for Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Just as FDR attracted a small army of bright young lawyers and domestic policy-makers to his New...

I hate Sudoku. I’m using the word “hate” about a logic-puzzle game, but I do hate it. More than the puzzle itself, I hate how taken people are with it, that from airplane passengers to day-to-day...

The worldwide total of confirmed cases of the latest strain of H1N1 influenza stands at more than 71,000, according to the World Health Organization. A pandemic now, the rapid spread of the disease has...

If Iowa had a men’s soccer team, there are plenty of people that believe it would have potential. Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta said thethought of adding any new sports, men’s or women’s, has...

Dan Ahrens has been involved in basketball for more than 40 years, but it’s off the hardwood where he best illustrates his character. Nine years ago, Ahrens adopted Aliou Keita, a foreign-exchange student...

The presence of the Iowa women’s basketball team was felt in a big way on Tuesday evening in North Liberty. In the Game Time contest between Active Endeavors/McCurry’s and Goodfellow Printing/ Imprinted...

A seven-player roster wasn’t enough to stop Coralville Hy-Vee from laying a smack down on L.L. Pelling/Cullen Painting, winning 98-78 in the Game Time League Tuesday night in North Liberty. One of Hy-Vee’s...

A rare heart abnormality may seem noteworthy in patient’s medical record. But a recent study shows roughly 60 percent of those with the problem had no record of it even after three months of physicians...

Victor Mansur, a recent UI graduate, drives a 1993 Jeep Cherokee. Under a government program to take effect at the end of the month, his vehicle could be eligible for a $4,500 rebate if he trades it in...

After inadvertently letting a burglar into his Arlington, Va., apartment building, Greg Whisenant decided to take action. He founded a web-based crime-mapping service, which would have allowed police...