Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa officials would have until September to draw up plans to wean their athletic departments off taxpayer money under a proposal state regents will consider next week.


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With a referendum on diverting 12.5 percent of Local Option Sales Tax revenue to the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center looming, the Fairfield City Council Ways and Means Committee had to make some tough calls on funding this year.


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Washington County Public Health and Home Care administrator Edie Nebel told the county Board of Health that the new public health department facility apparently did not receive the $550,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) that the department hoped to be the first dollars obtained for the project.
 

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Cincinnatti Iowa still working on waste water fix.

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A Kirksville teenager accused of hitting a man in the head with a pool stick ... pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to five years probation.


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SPRINGFIELD, ILL. (AP) -- Illinois taxpayers now have a new way to track state-funded grants.

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COLUMBIA, MO. -- Columbia police said a unconscious man found in a downtown restaurant bathroom died at the hospital from a suspected drug overdose.

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