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Erin JordanErin Jordan is an investigative reporter who writes stories for newspaper, online and television. Previous to coming to the Gazette in 2010, Erin worked six years in the Des Moines Register’s Iowa City bureau. She enjoys filing Open Records requests and is persistent about getting information from sources across the state and country. Erin has written revelatory stories about underground pipelines, the nursing home industry, personalized medicine and the University of Iowa. A Des Moines native, Erin graduated from Iowa State University. |
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Investigators hope to decide next week whether Klunder involved in Evansdale murders
The Evansdale Police Department hopes to decide by next week whether Michael Klunder, a registered sex offender who abducted two central Iowa girls last week before hanging himself, was involved in the murders of two cousins last year. A dozen investigators are retracing Klunder’s steps since July, when Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, [...]
Johnson County officials want to revise spillway policies, but study unfunded
Some Iowa officials want to change protocols for how much water is released from the Coralville Lake to reduce chances of catastrophic floods like the one in 2008, which caused more than $1 billion damage in Iowa City and Coralville. A study that could result in changes to these protocols at the Coralville Lake and [...]
Blood found likely that of missing teen, abductor called “pure sociopath”
Investigators believe they found the blood of a missing teenager on the body of her kidnapper, on his truck and at a northern Iowa hog confinement facility where he took two girls Monday afternoon, officials said Thursday. Kathlynn Shepard, 15, of Dayton, was still missing Thursday evening after she and a friend were abducted Monday [...]
Authorities investigating possible connection between abduction cases
Law enforcement agencies are probing whether a central Iowa kidnapping may be linked to the murder of two girls abducted last July from Evansdale. About 200 officers and volunteers searched rural areas in Webster, Boone and Hamilton counties Tuesday for a 15-year-old Dayton girl investigators believe was kidnapped Monday afternoon. Kathlynn Shepard was still missing [...]
Interactive: Shelter from the storm
Sirens may be obsolete
Iowa safer with sirens?
‘Mother’ and ‘father’ labels may be removed from Iowa birth certificates
UPDATE: The Iowa Department of Public Health may replace ‘father’ and ‘mother’ labels with ‘parent’ on Iowa birth certificates following an Iowa Supreme Court ruling Friday requiring the department to list both lesbian spouses on a child’s birth certificate. “The Department of Public Health appreciates the definitive direction from the Supreme Court,” wrote public health [...]
Iowa City Regina provides roadmap for reducing food waste
IOWA CITY — When students at the Regina Catholic Education Center finish the school year May 31, they will have composted more than 11,000 pounds of food waste from their cafeteria since August. That waste once went to the landfill, where it took up space and generated methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But since August [...]
Hy-Vee starts composting pilot project in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids
Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Hy-Vee stores will start composting food waste, produce and floral trimmings through a pilot project. Green RU, a Des Moines-based organics recycler, will pick up the waste from Hy-Vee stores and haul it to compost facilities in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Eddyville, said Demetrios Hadjis, regional sales and marketing [...]
