On June 6, I appeared before the Iowa Senate education-appropriations fix subcommittee to briefly describe the effect that continued cuts to education would have on students at Iowa’s state universities....

Sunday was an important holiday, right? It was the third Sunday in June, meaning fathers across the country were honored with electric razors and golf clubs. However, another very important day — a...

Compared with the cost of a similar search in 2008, the price tag for the University of Iowa’s 2011 provost search seems trifling. For a mere $13,000, university officials managed to select 21 candidates,...

Iowa forward Melsahn Basabe didn’t make the initial cut for the USA U19 World Championship team. USA Basketball left Basabe off a list of 13 roster finalists it released on Sunday, after three days...

Bill and Donna Frese are used to traveling thousands of miles from their home in Cedar Rapids to College Park, Md. They make the trip a few times every winter to support their daughter, Maryland women’s...

Anthony Hubbard introduced himself to a packed gym in North Liberty in a big way on Sunday afternoon. Hubbard torched Jill Armstrong of Lepic/Kroeger Realtors for a game-high 26 points on 7-for-14 shooting,...

A North Liberty man was arrested by Iowa City police after he allegedly threatened to shoot a woman. Joel Venteicher, 35, was charged June 17 with domestic-abuse assault with intent and first-degree harassment. According...

Johnson County deputies arrested a Marion man after he allegedly contacted an underage girl through a social-networking site and threatened to post naked photos of her. Daniel Joseph Herrig, 51, was charged...

Iowa City police arrested a Hiawatha, Iowa, woman after she allegedly assaulted another woman. According to complaints, Brogan assaulted a woman who requested several times that Brogan leave her house....

An Oxford man was arrested by Johnson County Deputies after he allegedly choked his girlfriend in an alley outside a bar. Jeremy Joseph Prymek, 41, was charged June 18 with willful injury causing bodily...

Four turkey vultures sat perched on the jagged gray rocks of the Coralville Dam on June 18. Huddled closely, the birds fully extended their wings — most reaching a length of 5 or 6 feet across — to...

When Liz Alonzi steps up to the turntables, she said she feeds off the give-and-take between her and the crowd. Her goal: to give the audience members something they’ve never heard before. Musicians...