Consumer confidence took a dip in July and stocks fell on the news Tuesday.
The art of dodging tossed wedding bouquets had been mastered by Cindy Pollard. At 52, and with plenty of experience celebrating the big day for others, she'd learned how to back into corners and disappear when brides sent those flowers flying.
Drivers across the country were warned Saturday to stay off roads and hunker down indoors as night falls, bringing more heavy snow and blizzard conditions in parts of the country.
Retirement accounts already battered by a steep market decline may get hit again as several companies suspend or reduce their 401(k) match to save cash
After failing to finish a reading assignment, 8-year-old Isabel Loeffler was sent to the school's time-out room -- a converted storage area under a staircase -- where she was left alone for three hours
For medical office manager Sue Stein, working past the typical retirement age was a choice she made because she's still having fun at her job and likes the lively banter with the young medical students around her
Most of us know how to save money on groceries: You clip coupons, compare prices at different supermarkets and jump on good sales. But saving money on health care costs? That's much more complicated. Here are six Web sites to help you slash how much you're paying for drugs, dentists, doctors and hospitals.
The Iowa attorney general's office filed child labor charges Tuesday against the owner and managers of the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant, the site of one of the nation's largest workplace immigration raids
During, perhaps, one of the most arduous periods in his life, Kevin Burns held three full-time positions: by day, a sales rep for Wells Fargo in Des Moines; by night, a business and marketing undergraduate student at William Penn University and by every other spare minute during his waking hours, a professional mixed martial artist.
A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street
Consumer confidence took a dip in July and stocks fell on the news Tuesday.
The art of dodging tossed wedding bouquets had been mastered by Cindy Pollard. At 52, and with plenty of experience celebrating the big day for others, she'd learned how to back into corners and disappear when brides sent those flowers flying.
Drivers across the country were warned Saturday to stay off roads and hunker down indoors as night falls, bringing more heavy snow and blizzard conditions in parts of the country.
Retirement accounts already battered by a steep market decline may get hit again as several companies suspend or reduce their 401(k) match to save cash
After failing to finish a reading assignment, 8-year-old Isabel Loeffler was sent to the school's time-out room -- a converted storage area under a staircase -- where she was left alone for three hours
For medical office manager Sue Stein, working past the typical retirement age was a choice she made because she's still having fun at her job and likes the lively banter with the young medical students around her
Most of us know how to save money on groceries: You clip coupons, compare prices at different supermarkets and jump on good sales. But saving money on health care costs? That's much more complicated. Here are six Web sites to help you slash how much you're paying for drugs, dentists, doctors and hospitals.
The Iowa attorney general's office filed child labor charges Tuesday against the owner and managers of the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant, the site of one of the nation's largest workplace immigration raids
During, perhaps, one of the most arduous periods in his life, Kevin Burns held three full-time positions: by day, a sales rep for Wells Fargo in Des Moines; by night, a business and marketing undergraduate student at William Penn University and by every other spare minute during his waking hours, a professional mixed martial artist.
A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street
Fewer college students are pursuing computer-related degrees at a time when demand is increasing and thousands of baby boomers are retiring from technical jobs
Orangutans and bonobos in one of North America's leading ape research centers are spending time high in their habitats to escape Iowa floodwaters, officials said Monday.
Days after it rose out of its banks on its way to record flooding in Cedar Rapids, the Cedar River has forced at least 20,000 people from their homes
TIME's reporter in Des Moines reports on the calamities of seemingly biblical proportions that have pushed the stoic state to the breaking point
The Cedar River poured over its banks here Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets
At least four people were killed and another 40 injured Wednesday when a tornado struck a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa, a state safety official said.
Residents were ordered to evacuate low-lying sections of towns along the overflowing Cedar River on Wednesday
A sandbagged levee was preventing a swollen river from spilling over its banks and flooding a northeastern Iowa city, but officials on Wednesday asked for more help
A 5.4 earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in the region rocked people awake as far away as Milwaukee
The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline rose to a record high of $3.33, up one and five-tenths of a cent from the previous day's record-setting price of $3.32, AAA reported Monday.
Of all the surprises during the 2007-08 college basketball season, the one that has to rank at the top of the list is this: It's cool to be Drake.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The sentence seems as implausible now as it has for three decades, but this time there's undeniable evidence to back it up.
Maybe it's too many years of Bushes of one sort or another. Perhaps it's the prospect of too many years of Clintons of this type or that. But something has me thinking this way, and I can't be the only person who believes the legacy thing has gotten a little out of hand in college basketball.
Suzanne Vocal wasn't looking for a job. She was working as an agency planning specialist at State Farm Insurance, which had singled out the ambitious 28-year-old brunette as "high potential." The company helped finance her MBA, placed her in the Austin office near her family, and in 2006 tasked her with one of its thorniest problems - coming up with better HR policies to entice State Farmers to stick around. While looking for "model" companies, Vocal came across a Des Moines insurer called Principal Financial Group. It offered enviable perks, like flexible schedules, two onsite gyms, and a soon-to-open early-childhood-education center. Plus, as Vocal looked more closely at the company's website, she noticed that many of Principal's leaders were women, a big draw in her mind. Vocal certainly didn't see how State Farm could beat Principal's offerings, so she decided a different game plan was in order. She joined them, moving halfway across the country to work as a market intelligence
MARKETS: Regarding Bank of America buying Countrywide, we are now starting to see some of the deal making/consolidation that I have been talking about recently. (Leaving aside the issue, as Roddy Boyd points out, that this may be bad money after bad!) I would expect more of these (WaMu/JP Morgan has been on the table) although instead of major deals so far, we are seeing something instead, which is the flurry of capital of infusions from overseas investors into Wall Street investment banks and broker dealers. To wit: Watch Merrill Lynch, where new CEO John Thain would like to match an announcement of a huge new multi-billion write-off with the announcement of more capital. I still think Bear Stearns may be dealt, although without question it could also scale back and live to see another day too. The other really big question on Wall Street is succession at Morgan Stanley, which also could end up happening in a deal. Really the best guy to take over from John Mack already has a job,
The actress shows up in Iowa to support Democratic candidate Barack Obama
All the action this New Year's is in the Hawkeye State, but the candidates -- sprinting toward Caucus Day -- won't be partying much
Oprah Winfrey cheered and praised Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Iowa Saturday, saying it was a personal matter for her to speak out for the first time for the junior senator from Illinois.
The talk show host swung by to introduce her audience to her candidate. So did Barack Obama get a boost?
As the caucuses fast approach candidates are relying on a hardy young band of underpaid, overworked staffers to win over voters
In his new mode, he's challenging the idea of Hillary Clinton's inevitability. But going on offense has put him on the defensive
Want to get a sense of democracy in action? Just pack your parka and head to Iowa before the caucuses
The price of gasoline has jumped another 13 cents in the last two weeks, close to the all-time high set earlier this year, according to a survey published Sunday.
Drivers passing Des Moines on the Interstate now have more to admire than the Iowa plains. The Paragon Prairie Tower rises 120 feet in a blaze of colored glass where I-35 and I-80 meet in Urbandale.
Less than two hours after a judge struck down Iowa's decade-old gay marriage ban, two Des Moines men applied for a marriage license
It depends on where you are, but for many drought-stricken farmers, the Midwest rains are alleviating a bad summer for soybean and corn crops
The Democratic candidate is reaching out to Latino voters, but that means doing a delicate dance in Iowa
Wells Fargo & Co., the second-largest U.S. mortgage lender, said Thursday it will close its nonprime wholesale lending business, which processes and funds loans for third-party brokers, citing turmoil in the market for riskier home loans.
There's school, homework to be done, hair to be washed and braided, playdates to honor, birthday parties to attend. Ballet and gymnastics and track. Hardly a minute of my family's time goes unscheduled, and when we do get a breather, we often spend it planning the next activities.
Gas prices tumbled more than 15 cents during the past two weeks, to $2.87 per gallon of self-serve regular, a national survey said Sunday.
Nine Egyptian students out of 11 who went missing in the United States two weeks ago are in custody, a government statement said Saturday.
The tell-tale sign of a stagnating real estate market? When homes for sale start lingering - and that's exactly what real estate brokers and other industry watchers say they're seeing now.
In June more than 31,000 people converged on the Iowa state fairgrounds in Des Moines for the annual World Pork Expo, a three-day porcine parade featuring Hormel's traveling SPAM-mobile, the requis...
For the second time in less than a week, a police chase turned deadly. This time the pursuit killed a young woman.
Across Iowa on Monday, Democratic presidential hopefuls stormed restaurants, fairgrounds, high schools and just about any place they could find an audience in an effort to bring supporters out to the evening caucuses.
From Deirdre Walsh, CNN political unit:
Editor's note: Campus Vibe is a weekly feature that provides student perspectives on the 2004 election from selected colleges across the United States. This week's contributor is Jerome C. Pandell, the special projects editor of The Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN, its affiliates or Northwestern University.
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