Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, IA
1 day ago
Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, IA
5 hours ago by Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - City hospital officials agreed in court Tuesday to implement reforms at a psychiatric ward where surveillance footage showed a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers failed to help for more than an hour.
Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat at 5:32 a.m. on June 19, falling face down on the floor.
Iowa State Daily, Iowa State University, IA
1 day ago by Associated Press
JASPER, Ala. - A small plane that crashed shortly after takeoff and killed four people had plenty of gas but sounded odd just before it went down, witnesses said.
"Nobody really knows what happened. Whether he had engine trouble, or was trying to turn around and come back, I don't think anybody knows right now," said Joey Sanders, owner of Sanders Aviation and a friend of the pilot.
Iowa State Daily, Iowa State University, IA
2 days ago by Jim Suhr/AP Writer
GRANITE CITY, Ill. - Police and FBI agents captured an ex-convict suspected of killing eight people in two states as he smoked a cigarette outside of a southwestern Illinois bar Tuesday night, a bar employee said.
Nicholas T. Sheley, who was the subject of a multistate manhunt after authorities linked him to the deaths of eight people in Illinois and Missouri, was arrested around 7 p.
Western Courier, Western Illinois University, IL
2 days ago by Ed Komenda
It would be completely wrong to say that Pixar Animation Studios has done it again with their latest flick "Wall-E." It still wouldn't be enough to describe the film as a milestone that completely transcends any animated reel of the past. Words are often a good weapon.
Iowa State Daily, Iowa State University, IA
3 days ago by David B. Caruso/AP Writer
NEW YORK - An Italian architect said he is poised to start construction on a new skyscraper in Dubai that will be "the world's first building in motion," an 80-story tower with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape.
The spinning floors, hung like rings around an immobile cement core, would offer residents a constantly changing view of the Persian Gulf and the city's futuristic skyline.
Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, IA
3 days ago