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Torch Morning News You Can Use 10-5:
DMACC is reviewing and discussing its security procedures after last week's shootings at a community college campus in Oregon. The college has a crisis management team and has hired a company to monit...
Oct 05, 2015
Riverfront YMCA tumbles
The Riverfront YMCA building in Des Moines is now history. Hundreds watched from the opposite bank of the Des Moines River as the half-a-century-old structure was imploded just before daybreak yesterd...
Oct 05, 2015
Torch Morning News You Can Use 10-2:
Deere and Company workers will get a first look at their new contract on Sunday, when they meet to vote on it. The six-year pact was announced just an hour after the old six-year deal expired. The agr...
Oct 02, 2015
Rubio touches on clean energy, Planned Parenthood in Cedar Falls
GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio at an event in West Des Moines earlier this summer. (photo by Sarah Beckman)More than 300 people showed up in Cedar Falls Thursday night to hear Republican presi...
Oct 02, 2015
UI making coal cleaner
Cutting pollution from emissions may be as simple as adding oat hulls to the mix. ..that’s what U-I scientists say. Their research discovered that burning a 50-50 mix of the hulls and coal at th...
Oct 02, 2015
Torch Morning News You Can Use 9-28:
Des Moines' city manager says he's waiting for a detailed list of concerns from the city's fire fighters' union to see what can be done to ease tension in the department over leadership. 86 percent of...
Sep 28, 2015
Torch Morning News you can use 9-25:
Plan DSM was on display last night at Bright Grandview Clubhouse for the first of four public meetings. Mayor Frank Cownie says they’ll incorporate the feedback into the final draft sometime in ...
Sep 25, 2015
Focus of first Iowa justice reform workshop is money
Lettie Prell with the Iowa Department of Corrections speaks about drug courts during the Governor’s Working Group on Justice Policy Reform meeting. (photo by Sarah Beckman)The state Department o...
Sep 24, 2015
Torch Morning News you can use 9-24:
A commercial delegation from China is in Des Moines today finalizing more than a dozen contract for Iowa products. Overall exports to China for the first half of this year are up more than 63 percent ...
Sep 24, 2015
Sanders Iowa campaign continues to grow, gain enthusiasm among youth
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks to more than 2,000 people in Cedar Rapids earlier this month. (photo by Sarah Beckman)Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ ef...
Sep 23, 2015
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