CEDAR RAPIDS –— The African American Museum of Iowa will celebrate its 20th anniversary next week, but Executive Director Tom Moore remembers when it was a simply an idea. “We started out very small at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church,” Moore says. “It was an idea to educate our children about African American history [...]

UPDATE: University of Iowa officials said today they believe the hill behind Mayflower Residence Hall is stable, after a mudslide damaged five cars in the Mayflower parking lot late last night. Structural engineers assessed the hillside and the bluff today and the initial preliminary report is that the hill is stable, UI Spokesman Tom Moore [...]

With debilitating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure and Gitelman’s syndrome, causing kidney problems and low potassium levels, Theresa Brown has become very familiar with the emergency room. From a hospital bed in January, the 51-year-old Cedar Rapids woman was asked when she last visited the emergency room at St. Luke’s Hospital. “I was [...]

IOWA CITY — A Marion couple welcomed a new year, and a new addition to the family, about an hour after midnight Tuesday. Soren Kai Hildenbrand was born at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at 1:04 a.m., weighing 10 pounds 6 ounces. According to UI spokesman Tom Moore, Soren was the first baby born [...]

University of Iowa faculty, staff and students have filed nearly 400 sexual harassment complaints in the past decade. UI Athletic Advisor Peter V. Gray resigned last week amid allegations that he violated the UI’s sexual harassment policy. Alleged violations range from Gray making sexually explicit comments to providing football tickets and money in exchange for sexual [...]

An attorney for the national Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was upset with the statement from University of Iowa officials regarding the closure of the fraternity’s UI chapter, believing the statement “disengages the university from any role in the closure.” Frank Ginocchio, general counsel and director of risk management for the national SAE office, made those [...]

Iowa City police since 2007 have received 28 calls for service to 302 Ridgeland Ave., the address of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house that was closed earlier this week following hazing allegations and is at the center of a sexual assault investigation. Some of the calls were for false alarms, lost property or locked [...]

University of Iowa expenses associated with President Barack Obama’s recent visit to campus totaled $55,364, according to figures released this week. Of that total, the UI is expecting to be reimbursed for $30,268.50. The Obama campaign to date has reimbursed the UI for $25,055 of its expenses, and UI spokesman Tom Moore said the university [...]

A shortage of one of the world’s most abundant elements may force some party hosts across the country to tone down their decor for an unpredictable amount of time. Current legislation mandates that the country’s remaining supply of helium — an odorless, colorless, gas best known for sending party balloons in flight — be sold [...]

IOWA CITY — About a dozen University of Iowa library staff members were relocated Friday, and another handful chose to go home, after fumes from an asbestos abatement project wafted through the main library. Crews working on the project on Thursday began using a solvent to remove an adhesive on the main library’s fifth floor, [...]