Hoping to imbue updates to its historic-preservation plan with the will and vision of local property and business owners, Iowa City is playing host to a series of meetings aimed at spurring public backing for continued conservation efforts.

The latest meeting, held Thursday night at St. Thomas More Church, 405 N. Riverside Drive, drew some 30 people, most of whom live in the Melrose and Manville Heights neighborhoods.

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UT alumna Stephanie Wilson is among the seven-member crew scheduled to embark Saturday on test mission STS-121, the second trip of NASAs space shuttle Discovery in its return-to-flight sequence.

Due to the departure of former director of University Housing Michael Scales and the planned departure of Jos-Luis Riera, director of the Office of Residential Living (RLO), the Business Operations Department has been reorganized.

The First Amendment Widespread anger toward The New York Times - over a story exposing a secret Bush Administration program to access a vast international banking database while hunting terrorists - is misguided. Forget the arguments youve heard about the programs effectiveness or its secrecy.

Randy Walker is gone.How horrifically surprising. Alarming. Jarring.How terribly, terribly sad.And how bitterly ironic that it was an apparent heart attack that took him at age 52.If there are two sweeping themes for which Ill remember Walker, they both involve heart.

1) A Drexel student reported that her wallet was stolen from the third floor of Hagerty Library June 9 at about 2:30 p.m.