Authorities Investigate After Iowa City Toddler Accidentally Eats Prescription Drugs: Iowa City Daily News Links, Oct. 31

Halloween is the best for the people randomly wearing costumes while they are at work. My personal favorite, the witch at the vehicle registration place.

On to the linksl

Vanessa Miller of the Gazette writes that authorities are investigating how a 3-year-old playing outside at the Regency Mobile Home Community managed to find and eat prescription drugs.

Here are candidate profiles for John Archer and Dave Loebsack for the Second U.S. Congressional District race. (Iowa City Press-Citizen)

Adam Sullivan of the Press-Citizen summarizes the back-and-forth between Loebsack and Archer as both were in Iowa City this week.

Some Iowa City residents are heading east to help restore power after ultra megastorm Sandy.

Iowa football's offense and defense is struggling. So it's fair to say the team is struggling, yes?

But don't worry, here's another positive preview of the Hawkeye men's basketball team. (CBS Sports)

A report of state worker's pay says that Iowa is paying at a higher than market rate. (Associated Press)

Tara Bannow of the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes that students are rallying in defense of University of Iowa's Center for Human Rights, which faces closure.

The headline reads Beware of Diet Busting Halloween Candy Trap. It's too late for me, Des Moines Register. Too late!

The founders of dibZees, which I profiled many a year ago when they started in the area, are returning to the area after achieving some success. (Press-Citizen)

Some Danish students took in the First Lady's visit the other day and one said she thought it was "kind of awesome" that Americans know the president's wife's name and that she would campaign for him. I believe Obama has the Danish vote sealed. (The Gazette)

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“A thorough search was done of the child’s play area, and no drugs were found, and there was no trace of what the child had ingested,” Roberts said.

Tests showed the child had swallowed some type of prescription medication – possibly an anti-anxiety or anti-depressant medication or a pain killer, according to Roberts.

“The incident is not related to the abandoned trailer or any type of drug trade,” Roberts said. “What we have here is a child who found something in the yard or in the street while playing outside, and he ate it thinking it was candy.”

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