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IOWA CITY, Iowa - Iowa City Community School District's steering committee hammered out the options for the future of district buildings, in a four hour meeting Wednesday night.
They approved two scenarios...
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - William Krause, the co-founder of Iowa-based convenience store chain Kum & Go, has died.
The company says Krause died Wednesday morning at his West Des Moines home after...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Governor Branstad has proclaimed this week as Drowning Prevention Week in Iowa.
According to The Centers for Disease Control, every day, about 10 people die from unintentional drowning....
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ADEL, Iowa (AP) - Grooming cows so they look like unusually large poodles is a well-known beautification practice in the show cattle industry.
But although it may be decades old, it's just now getting...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Terry Branstad says storms that brought flooding to Iowa since May 19 caused an estimated $22 million in damage that is eligible for federal public assistance. As a result...
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OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) - A grant will help Ottumwa improve the look of buildings on a downtown block.
The Ottumwa Courier reported Tuesday the Iowa Economic Development Authority gave the city conditional...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Republican Ben Lange has ended speculation about running for the U.S. House in 2014. The Independence attorney said Thursday he won’t run a third time in Iowa’s 1st District.
In a...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - If you own a Kindle tablet computer, you can take the practice Iowa drivers license test.
The Iowa Department of Transportation on Wednesday said its "IA Driver Test" app will generate...
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DES MOINES, Iowa -- A transparency task force of the state Board of Regents recommends that public comment hearings be held around the state a few days prior to each regents meeting, but a citizens' group...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – It comes as no surprise to Sen. Chuck Grassley that the IRS is in hot water again.
The tax collection agency came under fire for allegedly targeting tea party and other conservative...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Cedar Rapids man accused of stabbing a 72-year-old man multiple times this weekend will remain in the Linn County Jail on an $85,000 bond.
Theodore Gathercole, 51, made his initial...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Des Moines school district has approved the purchase of 182 additional security cameras.
The Des Moines Register reports the school board Tuesday night approved a plan to...
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CENTER POINT, Iowa - Neighbors opposed to a large hog confinement operation east of this community have kicked their efforts up a notch. A group paid for a billboard on a main street in Center Point this...
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LINN COUNTY, Iowa - Ten AmeriCorps programs across Iowa have been awarded more than $2.6 million from the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Sen. Tom Harkin, a longtime supporter of AmeriCorps,...
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DESOTO, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa State Patrol says a man has died from injuries he received in a crash on Interstate 80 in central Iowa caused by a wrong-way driver.
KCCI-TV reports Wednesday that 20-year-old...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A suspicious package caused a brief scare at Collins Road Square about midday on Wednesday.
As it turns out, the only threat was a little indigestion.
“It’s just the leftovers of...
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - Leaders in the Iowa City Community School District will discuss the future of several elementary schools at a meeting Wednesday night. A committee, made up of school and local government...
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DAYTON, Iowa —The family of a 12-year-old who escaped from Michael Klunder believes the man is capable of kidnapping and killing two cousins in Evansdale.
Authorities said two sets of girls about the...
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POSTVILLE, Iowa - A Postville man is accused of stabbing another man at a meat processing plant there Tuesday night.
According to a Postville Police Department news release, police and the Postville Ambulance...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa-- Right now, millions of Americans are out of work.
In Iowa, the unemployment rate sits at just under 5 percent.
Nationally, it's much higher at 7 and a half percent.
If you're on the...
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RICEVILLE, Iowa (AP) — A northern Iowa police chief has been placed on paid leave pending a city investigation.
The Riceville City Council took the action last week on Chief Kim Orth.
Mayor Dean Eastman...
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JOHNSON COUNTY, Iowa - The Johnson County Sheriff's Department and the Coralville Police are searching for a man who failed to return from his work release. 23-year-old Loel Howieson II was last seen on...
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JEFFERSON, Iowa (AP) - Casino supporters have turned in petitions calling for a public vote on gambling in west-central Iowa's Greene County.
A group called Grow Greene County submitted more than 750...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa boaters will need to follow new laws designed to protect the state's lakes and rivers from non-native aquatic species.
The Department of Natural Resources says that beginning...
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SPENCER, Iowa (AP) - A Spencer man has caught a $1,600 walleye on Big Spirit Lake in northern Iowa.
Joe Larson caught a tagged fish that was part of a contest sponsored by the Iowa Great Lakes Area Chamber...
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Iowa's business development agency is hiring a nonprofit group to look for ways to turn around the state's last-in-the-nation ranking for women-owned businesses.
The Iowa Economic...
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WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - State regulators have suspended the license of a Coralville social worker accused of being drunk on the job.
The Iowa Board of Social Work announced Tuesday that Brian Nedoba's...
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MARION, Iowa - Marion city leaders say they're paving the way to safety with a new ordinance toughening up city rules for meth labs cleanups.
Many states around Iowa have either meth lab disclosure...
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Iowa City Council Tuesday night adopted what may be a first-in-the-nation law to ban traffic-enforcement cameras, drones and most uses of license-plate readers, but it comes with...
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POSTVILLE, Iowa - The Clayton County Sheriff's Office is investigating a stabbing in Postville tonight.
Witnesses say about 15 people were involved in the fight at the Agri Star plant. Authorities say...
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Riverside Festival Stage in lower City Park is the summer home of the cast and crew of the Riverside Theatre. Modeled after the historic Globe Theatre in London, each June through...
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - Johnson County officials are moving forward after a difficult period for many departments.
“I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone,” said county engineer Greg Parker. In March Parker watched...
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DUBUQUE, Iowa — A Dubuque non-profit committed to improving 3rd grade reading in the community has taken on another project to keep kids engaged and learning during the summer.
“The Summer Academy” program...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Gov. Terry Branstad has picked an interim director for the Iowa Department of Education.
Branstad announced Tuesday that Duane "D.T." Magee will run the department while the state...
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WATERLOO, Iowa — Loud cheers greeted about 50 members of a Waterloo-based Iowa Army National Guard unit Tuesday morning.
The members of Detachment 1, Company C, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Cedar Rapids Police Department’s Special Response Team served a warrant at a residence early Tuesday morning.
Shortly after 5 a.m., members of the team served a narcotics search...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Police have arrested the Cedar Rapids man who they say stabbed a 72-year-old man multiple times this weekend.
Frederick Rottmiller was suffering from a multitude of potentially life-threatening...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A Department of Natural Resources biologist says Iowa's pheasant population likely will decline this year because of the cool and wet spring.
DNR upland wildlife biologist Todd...
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Months after customers blasted the company for skyrocketing rates, Iowa's dominant health insurer says it will limit premium increases in 2014 to less than six percent for individual...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Bristow Group, which provides helicopter transport services for offshore oil and gas and government operations, is retrofitting a fleet of 44 helicopters with Rockwell Collins's traffic...
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DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Authorities have released the name of a man who died after a fight at Modern Woodmen Park in Davenport.
Davenport police identified him as 45-year-old Douglas Whalen, of Davenport....
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DAYTON, Iowa —Twelve-year-old Dezi Hughes spoke with KCCI-TV in Des Moines about escaping her abductor -- the same man who allegedly kidnapped and killed her friend.
“Just went to walk home and (he) asked...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Police said a Cedar Rapids man pulled a gun on another man during an argument at a night club.
Cedar Rapids police were called to the Red Baron Bar and Dance Club, 62 16th Ave SW,...
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IOWA CITY, Iowa - Flooding at Lower City park in Iowa City has forced the Riverside Theatre to move indoors for the entire summer season. The theater didn’t sustain damage from the flood, but the theater...
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DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler says it has resolved its differences with the government and will recall older Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs that could be at risk of a fuel tank fire.
Earlier this month...
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POSTVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a small explosion at a northeast Iowa factory that injured three workers has been deemed accidental.
Postville Fire Chief Jeffrey Bohr says the cause of the explosion...
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison last week for possessing child pornography after a jury found him guilty in March.
James Sumner, 50, was convicted...
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CEDAR Rapids, Iowa-- The City of Cedar Rapids broke ground Tuesday on a new flood protection system at the Water Pollution Control Facility. Five years ago, the flood of 2008 took the facility offline...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Two people have testified in Des Moines against a $135 million base rate increase sought by MidAmerican Energy Co.
Bob Wessel and Jerry Bridgeman, who are both retired, asked...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The World Food Prize foundation will announce the winners of its annual award on Wednesday at a ceremony in Washington featuring Secretary of State John Kerry as the keynote speaker.
The...
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