Miles News

The state Board of Regents on Wednesday voted to allow the University of Iowa to skip the usual bidding process, and in some cases regents' approval, for construction projects to help the university more ...

A man got his vehicle stuck in a drainage ditch and drowned. On Friday afternoon, Jackson county officials were called to the Preston/Miles area for a body found in a ditch.

REGISTER STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES * June 10, 2008 DUBUQUE Loose barge smacks span over Mississippi A runaway barge hit the Julien Dubuque Bridge on Monday.

UPDATED: MAQUOKETA, Iowa - A man who drowned in an eastern Iowa lake has been identified as a Miles man.

SABULA, Iowa - The identity of a man who drowned Friday night in South Sabula Lake has been released.

Linn St. between Iowa Avenue and Washington Street Today, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Kick off the Iowa Arts Fest with "Boomer Bash!" as six hot-shot coots in cahoots tear the heck out of 8-track wonders like Santana, ...

Residents who were told to leave try to salvage their belongings in Parkersburg after the tornado struck Sunday after 5 p.m. The twister cut from Aplington to Dunkerton.

“We are fulfilling the wishes of our donors to be able to support these projects which represent many areas of Jackson County, as well as various quality of life areas”

MAQUOKETA, Iowa -- The Maquoketa Area Community Foundation has awarded the following grants to nonprofit organizations throughout Jackson County in the first cycle of the 2008 year: * $250 to the American Red ... via Telegraph Herald

“That's information I don't have”

Robert Donley Finalist for Board of Regents executive director Robert Donley, a higher education administrator in Florida, was being offered the job as executive director of the state Board of Regents in Iowa, ... via The Gazette

“At the secondary level the big issue is diversity of programs, and you need numbers to do that. I think this is a good way to make sure the kids have a diversity of programs.”

"It's all about the kids." Caught between a rock - declining enrollment - and a hard place - state-required course offerings - Northeast High School at Goose Lake and East Central High School at Miles think ... via Clinton Herald

“We need to make the case that there is a very real public good for Iowa, the nation and the world to have an educated citizenry”

Iowa City, Ia. - Iowa Board of Regents President David Miles thanked the Iowa Legislature for providing in its final session nearly $42 million for faculty salary increases at Iowa's public universities. via Des Moines Register

“A friend is looking for a lost recipe she used to make. It was published in a TH Recipe Roundup section some years ago. She believes it was called Lemon Meatballs.”

Looking for fun food things to do? Here are a couple: Chuck Spielman, of Dubuque, is organizing a fund raiser for Albrecht Acres. via Dubuque Telegraph Herald

Two schools in Jackson County and one school in Clinton County were locked down until just after noon Tuesday, while authorities were looking for three men in connection with an stabbing of a Miles man with a ... via The Gazette

The Jackson County Sheriff's office is investigating a stabbing. Authorities say shortly after midnight Tuesday, officers were called to a home in Miles, Iowa. via KWQC-TV Davenport

The AAIM High Hoops fifth-grade boys basketball team finished third in the Iowa State AAU tournament in Des Moines. via Hawk Eye

“I believe our students are much safer today than they were”

By ERIN JORDAN * REGISTER IOWA CITY BUREAU * February 15, 2008 Although Iowa's public universities have taken steps in the past year to protect their campuses from violence like the shooting Thursday at ... via Des Moines Register

“We have a sense of what strategies have worked on other campuses and where we stand”

Minority students are almost 10 percent less likely to return to the University of Northern Iowa for their sophomore year than non-minority classmates, according to a report presented to the Iowa Board of ... via Waterloo Courier

The Iowa Board of Regents today named Jack Evans as its new president pro tem. Evans, of Cedar Rapids, will fill the spot left vacant when the board elected former president pro tem David Miles, of West Des ... via Waterloo Courier

“It will be a great way to get out and warm up during the winter and just have some fun with music and film”

Call 337-7944. Line up: * 12:30 p.m.: "The Sound of Jazz," 58 min. * 1:45 p.m.: "Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue," 123 min. via Press-Citizen

“It will come back. If anything, you know, it's going to be a shock for a little while and it's right in the middle of our downtown, where everybody can see it and be reminded of what happened”

A Saturday fire that destroyed several businesses in downtown Maquoketa and left four families homeless has been declared "not suspicious." The fire broke out in the 100 block of South Main Street around 2 a.m. ... via Clinton Herald