Iowa City Owl

Apps that does not add enough value to Facebook can no longer use Facebook’s data to protect its assets. From a blog entry published by Facebook, they explained that they have changed their policies to clear up this certain issue.

A man from Iowa City wound up in jail Friday when he was very rude to a police officer, allegedly making a comment that the officer should "go eat a taco," according to a recent post on the Iowa City Patch website.

It has recently been reported that Apple fired its China-based labor supplier after the company discovered that their supplier employed 74 underage workers. In its latest Supplier Responsibility report, Apple has detached its affiliation to its China-based labor supplier, Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics (PZ), after discovering that the supplier is hiring dozens of child laborers.

Recent research shows that people who stay on Facebook for a long time prying on their friends’ photos, statuses and career achievements could make them feel miserable. Researchers from Humboldt University in Berlin and Technical University in Darmstadt conducted the said study, asking around 600 Facebook users how they felt after browsing through the said social media site.

A massive fire ripped through Iowa City last night, Tuesday, January 23. The cause is being investigated. It is currently unknown, but investigations continue. [ads]According to kcrg.com, a fire broke out some time before 8 p.

An Iowa City woman has been arrested after she was caught bringing several bags of marijuana into the Johnson County Jail recently when she was arrested and faces charges for possessing illegal contraband in a correctional facility.

The University of Iowa activated a bio-emergency response team last week for the first time in three years after the flu hit University of Iowa students in staggering numbers. [ads]University of Iowa has been coining the anticipated event "flu-mageddon.

Iowa says good-bye to one of its most famous individuals. Pauline Friedman Phillips, the famous columnist who wrote "Dear Abby" under the name Abigail Van Buren, has died at the age of 94. [ads]Iowa loses one of its own with the death of Pauline Friedman Phillips, 94, yesterday.

The Iowa City School Board has decided to move forward with a diversity policy change that has become very controversial with those that are part of the community affected by the change, according to an article on radioiowa.

Every year, the Iowa City Police Department holds a ceremony where it presents its annual departmental awards. This year, the Richard W. "Dick" Lee Award and the Officer of the Year award were presented to two officers of the Iowa City P.