The Sandy Hook massacre has brought back a lot of attention to some divisive and complex national pressure points: Gun control, mental health, media violence, some sort of moral or religious decay — all have been targeted as direct and logical causes of an illogical, aberrant act. The debates that are raging aren’t bad [...]

  It’s the images I keep coming back to. The kids, dressed for the school day in shirt sleeves and sneakers, hands on the child’s shoulders before them as they’re led from the building by police. Their mouths agape with confusion and fear, they stare into the middle distance like soldiers. The cars crowding the [...]

IOWA CITY — In four of his team’s five games this season, Virginia Tech point guard Erick Green has led the Hokies in scoring. Green averages 24.4 points per game and his season low is 21 points. He also leads the Hokies in assists, steals and is second in rebounding. In short, the 6-foot-3 senior does [...]

  “I am Trayvon.” Sometimes it’s written in block letters across the shoulders of a hooded sweat shirt, sometimes in the somber, angry expression on the wearer’s face beneath the upturned hood. As hundreds of Iowans gathered this week to demand justice for the slain Florida 17-year-old, many had stories to share about their own, [...]

AMES – A new taste to the National Wrestling Coaches Association/Cliff Keen National Duals has a heavy flavor of the University of Iowa and legendary coach Dan Gable. The new format has resulted in 24 teams competing in four six-team regionals with the champion advancing to next week’s championship semifinals and finals at a site [...]

UPDATE: A law enforcement official says the gunman who fled after killing a police officer on campus is believed to be dead. The law enforcement official had knowledge of the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.   After the officer was shot Thursday, authorities found a second body in a campus parking lot. It [...]

  IOWA CITY — She was terrible. She was terrific. She was horrible. She was heroic. Morgan Johnson morphed from Bad Morgan to Good Morgan early in the second half and lifted the Iowa Hawkeyes to a 58-47 win over Virginia Tech in front of an announced crowd of 4,798 Wednesday night at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. [...]

  IOWA CITY — They’re doing everything right some of the time, and they’re doing some things right most of the time. But, Coach Lisa Bluder said, the Iowa Hawkeyes aren’t yet doing anything right all of the time. “We’re just not consistent in any area right now,” Bluder said. “We’re practicing hard, we’re focused [...]