The attorney for an eastern Iowa woman who is accused slitting the throats of her two sons, killing one and injuring the other, wants her trial moved out of Buchanan County. Michelle Kehoe of Coralville faces one count of first degree murder and another count of attempted murder for the alleged knife attack last October.

Kehoe's attorney, Andrea Dryer, is asking the court to call a mock jury to see if potential jurors in Buchanan County could offer a fair trial. Dryer says comments on websites lead her to believe the trial should be moved. "Name calling, directing profanities at Mrs. Kehoe, expressing their opinions about what should be done to her," Dryer said.

Kehoe attended today's motion hearing, but did not speak. Assistant Attorney General Andrew Prosser, who is helping prosecute the case, said media coverage has been statewide so he believes a fair trial is just as likely in Buchanan County as any other county in the state. Prosser also asked the judge to extend a no-contact order between Kehoe and her surviving son to also include her husband.

Prosser says the meetings between Michelle and Eugene Kehoe are doing "incalculable" psychological harm to their son Sean. "There is potential harm in the fact that this now 7 or 8-year-old child knows that his father is going to see the woman who sliced his throat and his brother's throat," Prosser said. "I can't begin to comprehend the kind of long term damage that fact alone could have."

Buchanan County Judge Bruce Zager listened to the arguments and will submit a written ruling on the mock jury and no-contact requests at a later date. Another hearing is set for September 18th, while Michelle Kehoe's actual trial is scheduled for October 28th.

A D-V-D-based game developed by the University Hygienic Laboratory will soon be going out to thousands of schools in Iowa and nationwide. The game, "Did You See That," is designed to get students in middle and high school -- and in college -- interested in the public health field.

Beth Hochstedler, the lab's training and outreach coordinator, says they shot video interviews with a variety of staff members to assemble the game. Hochstedler says, "It's based somewhat off the game 'Scene It,' where you have video clips and then answer science trivia questions and there is a game board and you can move on the game board to get to the different career paths in public health."

The lab is making all of the clips available on the popular website YouTube, in addition to launching a page on the social networking website Facebook. Hochstedler says there are also plenty of free DVDs available for people like school counselors and science teachers.

She says they have 5,000 copies of the DVD that'll go out, while the game is also available for free on-line via the University Hygienic Lab's website at "www.uhl.uiowa.edu".

Hochstedler says the primary goal is to attract students to the field of laboratory science. "Public health is facing a national workforce shortage with an estimated 250,000 job vacancies by 2020," she says. The game was funded through a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The University Hygienic Laboratory is Iowa's environmental and public health laboratory, with facilities in Ankeny, Milford and at the University of Iowa's Research Park in Coralville.