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The officers made several stops for minor infractions, but instead of handing out tickets, they cut the drivers a break and gave them turkeys.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.

Police say initial indications were that the 93-year-old died of natural causes.

A Dubuque family recalls its mother's last months alive while she dealt with the isolation of being a resident at a long-term care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Monday night, the 39th annual Mike and Leona Adams Thanksgiving dinner took place in Waterloo, but with a set of adjustments for safety from the novel coronavirus.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, said he will seek to replace Feinstein as the committee's top Democrat.

In the last three weeks, the Iowa Department of Corrections has reported six COVID-related deaths — one employee and five inmates, including the death of an inmate at Anamosa State Penitentiary reported Monday night.

Michigan’s Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, was meeting Monday afternoon for what usually is a routine step.

Time for the special Thanksgiving edition of John’s Big Ol’ Fish!

New cases of the virus in the U.S. have rocketed to all-time highs, averaging more than 170,000 per day, and deaths have soared to over 1,500 a day, the highest level since the spring.

A man who was serving a life sentence for kidnapping at the Anamosa State Penitentiary has died, likely due to the novel coronavirus, officials said.

Thanksgiving week is usually one of the busiest travel times of the year, but there has been an 11% decrease in travel on the roads statewide this year according to the Iowa Department of Transportation.

The gift will go to about 40,000 employees.

A University of Iowa student-athlete has been named a Rhodes Scholar, which is one of the highest academic honors in the world.

An eastern Iowa soldier is being promoted to Specialist more than a year after he died in an accident on a Texas military base.

The new form, which is only for people living in Linn County, is meant to improve the efficiency of contact tracing efforts by Linn County Public Health.

A Cedar Rapids woman is making free masks to give out during the pandemic. Aleasha LeClere learned to sew just a couple months ago with the help of her daughter. The two have already made more than 500 masks to give out.

The move clears the way for Joe Biden aides to begin coordinating with federal agencies on plans for takeover on Jan. 20.

The picks mark a return to a more traditional approach to America’s relations with the rest of the world and reflect Biden’s campaign promises to have his Cabinet reflect the diversity of the American population.

Ken Jennings is well-known to fans of the game show for his 74-game winning streak and victory in last year's prime-time ‘Greatest of All Time’ competition.

In the eight months since the pandemic hit Eastern Iowa, plenty of businesses had to close as the customers stopped coming. The Iowa Restaurant Association projects up to 1,000 more will close permanently, across the state, by March 1st.

The federal prison system will be among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine.

Two separate incidents where gunshots were heard in Iowa City over the weekend are being investigated, law enforcement officials said on Monday.

New Zealand's leader said the tone of the 20-minute phone call Monday was warm and that Biden spoke very favorably about how New Zealand was handling the pandemic.

A path-breaking figure in the male-dominated economics field, Yellen, 74, was also the first woman to serve as Fed chair, from 2014 to 2018. She later became an adviser to Biden’s presidential campaign in an unusual departure for a former Fed leader that thrust her into the political arena.

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A slim lead held by a Republican candidate for an open congressional seat in Iowa has gotten even smaller as counties recount their votes.

General Motors says it will no longer support the Trump administration in legal efforts to end California’s right to set its own clean-air standards.

A collision between two large vehicles resulted in one driver being hospitalized and another receiving minor injury, officials said on Monday.

The device is a massive containment unit is designed to keep people from entering a school, bank or courthouse with any type of gun.

An officer for the Ottumwa Police Department was arrested after an alleged incident in a nearby town, according to officials.

The decision announced Monday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will cost the automaker an estimated $1.2 billion, about one third of its net income this year.

The decision to move forward with indoor White House events and other gatherings comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, top White House advisers and public health professionals across the nation have been pleading with Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving.

Time for the Monday, November 16, 2020, edition of John’s Big Ol’ Fish!

Major League Baseball says the plan is tentative, contingent on the status of public health next summer.

The 2020 White House Christmas tree arrives in traditional style on a horse-drawn carriage.

“Although intended for fun and entertainment, many toys contain hidden hazards unnecessarily putting children at risk of injury or death,” Boston-based World Against Toys Causing Harm Inc. said in a statement announcing its “10 Worst Toys” of the year.

An incoming storm system will bring the threat of snow to parts of Iowa on Monday night into early Tuesday.

The head of emergencies at the World Health Organization says it’s “extremely important” for its international team to visit China to look into the origins of the coronavirus, saying the U.N. health agency has been reassured such a trip will happen “as soon as possible.”

Israel has long had clandestine ties to Gulf Arab states that have strengthened in recent years as they have confronted a shared threat in Iran.

AstraZeneca is the third major drug company to report late-stage results for a potential COVID-19 vaccine as the world anxiously waits for scientific breakthroughs that will bring an end to a pandemic that has wrought economic devastation and resulted in nearly 1.4 million confirmed deaths.

When COVID-19 started its spread in March across the United States, UnityPoint Health - St. Luke’s Hospital doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, techs and over 3,000 team members working in the hospital and clinics stepped forward to care for their neighbors, friends and loved ones. The important work continues but for those that bravely worked the frontlines in St. Luke’s COVID-19 unit it’s a time they’ll never forget.

The University of Iowa Athletics Department reported four more positive COVID-19 tests from November 16 to November 22.

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbings of two people and the wounding of others at a California church that was being used as a homeless shelter, police said Monday.

The Cedar Rapids Civil Service Commission on Monday voted unanimously to uphold Police Chief Wayne Jerman’s decision to fire Lucas Jones.

There’s new reason to be thankful in the fight against COVID, even if it won’t save your Thanksgiving.

The Oxford English Dictionary had a hard time picking its traditional “word of the year” for 2020.