The University of Iowa recommended that Taleb Hussein Yousef Salameh be denied a weapons permit in 2010, but the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office issued him a permit to purchase anyway in February of that year, public records show. On Sunday evening, Salameh, 28, was involved in a shootout with North Liberty police that left him [...]

  IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa Athletics Department has reassigned an administrative assistant so he no longer reports through the football program, headed by his future father-in-law, Kirk Ferentz. Tyler Barnes will report to Rick Klatt, associate athletics director for external relations, until the completion of a UI review of whether Barnes’s employment [...]

© 2013 The Gazette   IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa has called for a review of whether the Athletics Department followed proper procedure in hiring Head Football Coach Kirk Ferentz’s future son-in-law as an administrative assistant for football. Tyler J. Barnes, 27, was hired in January 2012 as a temporary administrative assistant with [...]

As he heads off to the “happy hunting grounds” of California to stalk economic development prospects, Gov. Terry Branstad says the $7.5 million owed the state by companies that failed to meet their job creation targets is a “relatively small amount.” Still, the governor said Monday, the state will go after those companies in an [...]

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics said this week it will change procedures to reduce food waste, following a Gazette investigation about the hospital throwing away $181,000 worth of prepared food last year. The hospital, which serves about 10,000 meals a day, will eliminate Styrofoam and nonrecyclable plastic from its cafeterias, allowing the hospital [...]

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, which wasted about 350,000 servings of food worth $181,000 in the last year, could do more to reduce food waste, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said. “I would hope they could do better than that,” Branstad told The Gazette. “The bigger the institution, the smaller percentage of waste they should [...]

IOWA CITY — University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics threw away 355,000 servings of food worth $181,600 in the year that ended Nov. 30 — a waste of 12 percent of food prepared for employees and visitors at the state’s largest hospital. Among unsold food tossed in a single November day were 160 servings of [...]

CORALVILLE – Nick Birtcher closed his bank account because he needed the $7 that was keeping it open. “It was a decision to cancel my account and utilize the funds or keep the $7 in there and not have food for the day,” the 33-year-old Coralville man said. But when Birtcher tried to cash his [...]