Articles Tagged: Iowa

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Iowa abortion rights activists celebrated the results of a Kansas ballot measure on abortion rights on Tuesday, when voters roundly rejected a proposed amendment to the state’s constitution that would remove protections for abortion, similar to an amendment Iowa voters may see on the ballot in 2024.

An Iowa judge has denied a request to reduce a $70,000 fine imposed against the owners of Eastern Iowa’s shuttered Cricket Hollow Zoo.

There have been 5,768 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the past seven days, just down from 5,924 the week before, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health.

LE MARS, Iowa (AP) — An explosion Wednesday morning destroyed two houses in the northwest Iowa city of Le Mars and injured three people.

YARMOUTH, Iowa (AP) — The Des Moines County Sheriff's Office on Friday identified a man killed in a grain silo collapse as a 30-year-old resident of the small southeast Iowa city of Winfield.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — A Mason City man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a February shooting in Cedar Falls that killed one man and left another with disabling injuries.

A former Eastern Iowa police officer faces possible prison time after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl last year while he was on duty.

One of the nurses fired by the state for mistakenly giving prison inmates six times the normal dose of the …

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Authorities on Thursday identified a man who was

Republicans eyeing 2024 presidential run should ‘make it personal,’ be geographically strategic in Iowa, Iowa GOP Chairman Jeff Kaufmann says.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld an eight-year prison sentence for an environmental activist who tried to sabotage the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Johnathan Lee Whitlatch, 33, of Boone, pulled up in a pickup truck next to 22-year-old Eden Montang, 21-year-old Vivian Flores and another woman just before 7 p.m. Thursday outside Cornerstone Church on the outskirts of Ames and began shooting with a 9 mm handgun. Both victims were Iowa State students, authorities say.

A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a northern Iowa father and son to prison for their participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — With a staunch anti-abortion Republican governor and large GOP legislative majorities, Iowa would seem poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns