Tag: dangers
State officials wanted to know if drivers were doing any better obeying state law that requires people to stop any time a school bus stops to pick up or let off students. The results were…
HUMBOLDT Humboldts downtown square drew extended conversation at Monday evenings council meeting. City Administrator Cole Herder said as many as 18 ash trees in the block-square park were at risk of emerald ash borer.…
Weve had an unusually rainy spring and summer. Our soils have been saturated for several weeks. You may think that watering wont be needed for quite some time since soil moisture levels remain high. However,…
We take a lot of things for granted. With the advent of antibiotics in the 1930s and 40s, we saw a true change in longevity and a reduction in premature death from infectious diseases. Now…
I was glad to learn Iola commissioners are re-evaluating whether to put $155,000 of insurance money toward a new floor in the recreation building in Riverside Park. Now that it has flooded three times in…
What is inflammation? Inflammation comes from the Latin words into the flame like how moths are drawn to sustaining warmth of a springtime campfire and harmful self-destruction if they get too close. Inflammation is a…
MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) Officials in eastern Iowa and other states along the Mississippi River are preparing for record or near-record crests. The Rock Island gauge at Davenport showed the level this morning at a…
Saying she wanted to break the logjam in Parliament over Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May last week reached out to the opposition Labor Party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn. It was a bold move…
In the wake of Sept. 11, federal officials said the United States needed a new, state-of-the-art facility to defend against bioterrorism and stop diseases that could devastate the countrys farm economy and threaten human lives.…
Hurricane Florence threatens to kill thousands of farm animals and trigger catastrophic spills of waste as it bears down on a Carolina coastal region dotted with sewage treatment plants, hog waste lagoons, poultry farms and…
