The Gazette

Doctors say an Iowa soldier wounded in last week’s deadly shooting at Fort Hood in Texas should make a full recovery. Twenty-seven-year-old Staff Sgt. Joy Clark, of Des Moines, was shot in her left forearm in the rampage last Thursday that left 13 dead and 29 others injured. Full Story »

More people will have a shot at H1N1 vaccine with a second clinic, from 1-5 p.m. Sunday at Community Health Free Clinic, 947 14th Ave. SE. Appointments will be taken beginning at 10 a.m. today for 900 slots at the clinic offered by Linn County Public Health. Call (319) 892-6009. Full Story »

IOWA CITY – Below are a couple of documents related to the odor problems at the Iowa City landfill. Click here for a story about the matter. First is a notice of violation from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources in October. It explains how the city was late in adding a gas collection system to a cell in the [...] Full Story »

City, county and federal government offices will be closed Wednesday in observance of Veterans Day, as will state and federal courts. Post offices will be closed, and there will be no residential mail delivery except for special delivery. Full Story »

For more than a year, Patrick and Nancy Hitchon and their neighbors have been dealing with a smelly problem. Foul odors regularly drift over from Iowa City’s 180-acre landfill a little more than a mile away on the western edge of town. Full Story »

Just four of the five groups expected to seek a state casino license handed over their proposals to state regulators Monday. Full Story »

DES MOINES – Just four of the five groups expected to seek a state casino license handed over their proposals to state regulators Monday. While projects from Lyon, Tama, Webster and Wapello counties met the Monday application deadline, a group from Franklin County that had expressed interest in building a casino there did not turn in [...] Full Story »

There’s still no commitment to return any Cedar Rapids city offices to the flood-damaged Veterans Memorial Building downtown. But the city is apparently ready to finally talk about the repair process. Full Story »

Two of the four finalists to become the University of Iowa’s new vice president for strategic communications have been announced. The finalists are visiting campus this week, with one-day visits through Thursday. The first two finalists to visit are Sandra Conn, chief creative officer and vice president for external affairs at the University of Alberta, [...] Full Story »

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS — A recount Monday resulted in no changes in last week’s close University Heights City Council election. Just two votes separated the person who came in fifth from two candidates who tied for sixth. There were 414 voters. Elected to the council were: Michael Haverkamp, Patricia Yeggy, Stan Laverman, Amy Moore and Brennan McGrath. The Johnson [...] Full Story »

With its population growing at the rate of 795 new residents per year, Marion needs more water, streets and sewers. Marion’s population rose from 26,294 in the 2000 U.S. Census to 32,821 on July 1, according to the Iowa Data Center. Full Story »

(AP) – An Iowa calling center has decided to add 55 new positions as the holiday season approaches. CEO Thomas Cardella says his company, Thomas L. Cardella & Associates, will hire 55 people to full-time, permanent positions this month. The company employs 800 people across the state, including 200 in Coralville. Cardella says the company is hiring [...] Full Story »

A sentencing hearing for a former Agriprocessors human resource employee was reset to 10 a.m. Feb. 5. in U.S. District Court. Karina Freund, of Fayette, pleaded guilty last December to a misdemeanor count of aiding and abetting a pattern or practice of hiring undocumented immigrants. Full Story »

Times are tough, but the Midwestern work ethic says grin and bear it. Grind and bear it may be more accurate. A North Liberty dentist reports some of her patients are so stressed, it’s taking a toll on their teeth. Dr. Kristen Waldschmidt of North Liberty Dental has heard complaints of jaw pain and headaches from patients in [...] Full Story »

The first-degree murder trial of Lee Muldoon, 24, of Coggon, is reset to May 3. A pretrial will be 1:30 p.m. April 23. Muldoon is accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter Skylar Inman in 2008. Skyler died from blunt force injuries. Full Story »

Prosecutors say the former manager of an Iowa kosher meatpacking plant masterminded a fraud scheme and harbored immigrants at the plant. Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan Jr. gave the government’s closing arguments Monday in Sholom Rubashkin’s federal financial fraud trial in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls, S.D. Rubashkin is on trial on 91 financial fraud charges, [...] Full Story »

E-mails indicate Gov. Chet Culver’s office took a close interest in the state’s film promotion efforts long before questions about spending and bookkeeping prompted him to freeze the program. The 224 e-mails between the Department of Economic Development and governor’s office from mid-2007 to fall 2009 show the governor’s office was kept fully abreast of the [...] Full Story »

A Guttenberg man is dead after a motorcycle crash near Decorah on Sunday. Dennis L. Phelan, 52, was northbound on Frankville Road, a few miles southeast of Highway 9, around 12:50 p.m. when he lost control of the motorcycle he was driving, according to the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office. The motorcycle went into the ditch and [...] Full Story »

Iowa’s road construction season has been extended at least through Thanksgiving as crews play catch-up because of wet weather. Fueled by federal stimulus dollars, this is record calendar year for highway projects in Iowa. Spending will approach $600 million, about 50 percent higher than the $400 million spent in a typical year. Road work usually slows with [...] Full Story »

Henry County authorities say they are investigating a school bus accident south of Mount Pleasant. Authorities say there were no injuries as a result of the accident early Monday. Iowa Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Jessica Lown says seven students, in addition to the driver, were aboard the Mount Pleasant School District bus. She noted not all [...] Full Story »

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for 555 Iowa taxpayers who have refund checks waiting for them totaling $495,001 that were returned to the IRS as undeliverable. The refund checks, averaging $894, can be sent soon as taxpayers update their addresses with the IRS. Full Story »

Two more Iowans have died of complications related to H1N1 flu, the Iowa Department of Public Health announced today. The victims were identified as two Polk County adults. Both had risk factors that increased the chance of complications. Full Story »

Authorities in Des Moines say they are looking into the possibility a Drake University student who suffered alcohol poisoning may have been sickened during a hazing. Full Story »

Authorities say a northern Iowa farmer died after he was buried in a trench in a farm field near Joice. The Worth County sheriff’s office says the 79-year-old man was repairing a drainage tile Saturday afternoon. A trench he had dug with a back hoe collapsed, burying him under the dirt. Officials say emergency crews were called [...] Full Story »

MILLVILLE — One person is dead after an accident in northeast Iowa. It happened on Highway 52 South of Millville just before six Sunday morning. The Iowa State Patrol says Lee Zuercher, 41, of Holy Cross was not wearing his seatbelt when an oncoming car crossed the center line and hit his pick-up truck head-on. Zuercher [...] Full Story »