U.S. House Resolution 304, sponsored by Reps. Robert Dold, R-Ill., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and HR 306, sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Edward Royce, R-Calif., were introduced earlier...

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., in announcing her “official” entry into the Republican presidential-nomination scrum in Waterloo Monday, stressed (and stressed and stressed and … well, you get the...

YES Legislators can’t be accountable to the people if the people don’t know what they are doing. The Iowa Senate should grant public-record requests of correspondence to and from state legislators’...

The Iowa Athletics Department announced on Monday that approximately 4,000 tickets to the U.S. Olympic Wrestling trials have been purchased since they first went on sale on June 6. The trials will be...

Finals American soccer fans have every right to feel embarrassed and disillusioned after the U.S. men’s team was humiliated by Mexico in the Gold Cup final last weekend. Those feelings will soon disappear,...

The Prime Time League is three games into its 25th season, and The Daily Iowan breaks down the action to produce the first edition of its weekly rankings. 1. Coach’s Corner/Two Rivers (3-0) On two...

Marcus Coker is an extremely bright guy, but the astrophysics major doesn’t like to talk about his academics. He’s a hell of a football player and Iowa’s No. 1 tailback, but he doesn’t like to...

A Muscatine woman was arrested Sunday after she allegedly assaulted three people at a trailer park. Nora Lissett Medrano, 34, was charged June 26 with public intoxication, assault causing injury, and...

President Obama authorized a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for six Iowa counties affected by flooding along the Missouri River Monday, according to a press release from Gov. Terry Branstad’s...

GOP presidental-nomination candidate Tim Pawlenty named 10 Iowa legislators to his Iowa Legislative Steering Committee on Monday, according to a campaign press release. Among the lawmakers is Sen. Shawn...

Chris Harmeyer didn’t spray his vineyard with insecticide for two days. The next thing he knew, Japanese beetles had defoliated two of his seven acres. That was two years ago, but Harmeyer, the owner...

Four years ago, Greg Bal picked up a camera thinking it would make a great hobby. “I bought a camera and just learned on my own,” he said. “It’s something I always enjoyed doing for the fun of...