(SPECIAL) - Iowa students continue to earn the second highest average ACT scores in the nation during 2010, according to results released by ACT. This year also saw an increase in the number of students in Iowa who took the test compared to 2009. The average ACT composite score for Iowa ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (SPECIAL) - After decades of living almost exclusively in print, a number of prominent cartoonists have banded together in the digital age to create a new website called TheCartoonistStudio.com. The website is a place where fans can have a direct interactive connection to ...
Two tickets matched all six numbers in the January 4 Mega Millions drawing. Those tickets, which were purchased in Idaho and Washington, split the estimated $355 million jackpot. The winning numbers were: 4 8 15 25 47 42
The World Health Organization has released their mortality statistics for 2010 and a startling statistic about in-home causes of death surfaced. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Radon Gas causes over 20,000 deaths annually in the United States. To put that into perspective, ...
DES MOINES - For college-bound students and their parents, January 1 is more than the start of the New Year; it also marks the first day they can complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the 2011-2012 academic year. The FAFSA is a standardized application used to ...
AMES (SPECIAL) - The seventh annual Iowa Bicycle Summit will be held Jan. 28-29, 2011, at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. The gathering will take place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, and is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) and Iowa Bicycle Coalition. Friday’s ...
TOLEDO CHRONICLE - The 2010 Census enumeration began last January in a remote corner of Alaska and in the months that followed, America stepped up and achieved a successful census. As mandated by the Constitution, the census counts every resident in the United States every 10 years to ...
TOLEDO CHRONICLE - CEDAR RAPIDS (SPECIAL) - With snow and freezing rain combined now with melting and re-freezing, Alliant Energy wants to remind customers not to forget about clearing snow and ice from their gas and electric meters as well as their furnace vents and other vents around their ...
WASHINGTON (SPECIAL) - The U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday the 2010 Census showed the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2010, was 308,745,538. The resident population represented an increase of 9.7 percent over the 2000 U.S. resident population of 281,421,906. Commerce ...
MARSHALLTOWN – When the Education & Training Center (ETC), 206 E. Church St., Marshalltown, opened in 2004, its mission was to be a central educational site that would meet the needs of community members. Most recently, there were six ETC graduates of the 75-hour Certified Nurse Aide ...