Abbe Center mattress fire considered ’suspicious’
MARION, IA - Fire officials here are calling a mattress fire at Abbe Center suspicious, though investigators on the scene have yet to determine the cause.
June 29, 2005
There's Cash Under the Mattress: Economic Spotlight on Barter in the Hotel Industry
In a Troubled Economy, Innovative Travel Marketing Helps Hotels Show Fiscal Responsibility Using Barter to Unleash Value of Inventory
South 40 RAs get memory foam mattresses
Ayesha Saied, one of the RAs of the Dauten dorm, shows off her new mattress. Sleeping arrangements for residential advisers on the South 40 underwent a comfortable change last week when the Official of Residential Life replaced their mattresses with ones made of memory foam.
Drive-By Shooting Targets Wrong House, Police Say
Des Moines police say gunshots fired into an east-side home -- ripping through the wall of a child's bedroom before burrowing into the mattress of his grandfather -- were probably intended for someone else.
