Ashray Mohit did not attend his first football game until the age of 22 as a second-year student at the University of Michigan. Originally from India, Mohit found his way to Ann Arbor on the advice of a professor and mentor at the University of Singapore. “He raved quite a bit about the city of Ann Arbor and his experience because he did his PhD at Michigan,” Mohit said. “That left a pretty ...

IOWA CITY — During Iowa football’s Kids Day, the chatter surrounded what the quarterback battle looks like. The main topics of the Hawkeyes’ training camp could finally be seen by fans for the first time since April, and it was an afternoon filled with just that. But who else flashed some positivity? Jeremy Hecklinski dominated the day, but there were other Hawkeyes who had a moment or two to ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — After more than four decades “playing in the water,” Cedar Rapids Utilities Director Roy Hesemann is hoping his upcoming retirement is nothing but smooth sailing. Hesemann has become a staple at city meetings where he offers a calm presence, years of experience and the occasional wry joke. As utilities director, he oversees a department responsible for critical public services ...

Cancer-causing radon can be detected in the home if tested. However, Roy Wier, who runs Tiffin-based radon mitigation business Adios Radon, observed that many homes are only tested when they are newly constructed or change hands in a sale. Meantime, Americans stay in their homes for an average of eight to 12 years, according to estimates from various sources. So Wier decided to offer a way to ...

Apparently, our bacon needs saving. “Anyone who supports a mandate like Prop 12 isn’t someone who can genuinely represent the people of Iowa, especially not our farmers and our producers and Iowa agriculture,” Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ashley Hinson said last month, according to the Iowa Capital Dispatch. “… You either stand with the radical vegan activists who don’t know the first ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Two men are accused of entering a southeast Cedar Rapids apartment Saturday while armed with guns and intending to assault the occupants, according to Linn County Attorney’s Office criminal complaints. Jalen H. Hicks, 26, of Mount Vernon, and Andra M. Small Jr., 28, of Cedar Rapids, entered an upstairs apartment Saturday in the 1200 block of Fifth Avenue SE, according to the ...

75 years ago: 1951 Lab Drug Test Kills 2 'Guinea Pigs': Two University of South Dakota employees who had volunteered as human guinea pigs in a medical school experiment died mysteriously at a hospital in Vermillion Wednesday afternoon. The victims were Jack Clifford, 30, a medical school laboratory technician, and Mrs. Ardys Pearson, 26, a clerical employee of the department of physiology and ...