An Iowa woman’s drive home turned into a scene out of a horror movie when her SUV accelerated uncontrollably down a Missouri highway as if she were on a NASCAR racetrack. She survived the Aug. 19 ordeal without a scratch; and it was all captured by a patrol officer’s dashboard camera. Lauri Ulvestad survived a real-life […]
Tag Archives: iowa
Education: Nature v. Nurture
Iowa high court strikes down same-sex marriage ban
The Iowa Supreme Court struck down a state law Friday that banned same-sex marriage. Iowa becomes the third state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage, after Massachusetts and Connecticut. Friday’s decision upheld a 2007 ruling by a lower court that Iowa’s 1998 law limiting marriage to heterosexual couples went against the state’s constitution.