Iowa City High senior Bernard Grant clinched the Class 4A high jump state title on May 22. Grant is the first Little Hawk to win the event since 1980.

The Clear Creek Amana boys quartet of Tay Seals, Owen Rosenberg, Luke Higdon and Eliezer Mipata won the Class 3A shuttle hurdle relay on May 24.

A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in our solar system.