Articles Tagged: Muscatine

A federal judge ordered the Muscatine County Jail to release an ICE detainee who had been incarcerated for almost a year after a judge ruled in his favor on an asylum request.

The federal money will go toward public safety, housing development and infrastructure projects.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is rolling out new victim assistance tools and has joined a multi-state push to scrutinize a major rail merger. Plus, Iowa lands $82 million for cleaner transit vehicles, and state economic officials approve new business aid and community projects.

An immigration judge has denied bond to a man who has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since he sought police help as the victim of a near-fatal shooting in Iowa months ago.

LST-325 is the last fully operational World War II "landing ship, tank" of its kind, first commissioned on Feb. 1, 1943.

Summer is right around the corner, which means its prime time for live music, festivals, fairs and family fun. From jazz to rap to country to rock, there’s plenty to listen, dance and sing along to in Eastern Iowa and beyond this summer.

Skinny’s Barbeque owner Cord Kleist uses pork butts coated in mustard, salt and a generous helping of black pepper to grow a Texas-style bark cooked over oak wood. Only recently did he start to add a proprietary blend of seasonings.

Latest film from award-winning writer Max Allan Collins stars Rob Merritt and Alisabeth Von Presley from Cedar Rapids.

An entry in a Fourth of July parade in Iowa has spawned confusion and outrage — one woman on horseback pulling a rope used to bind the wrists of another woman wearing Native American dress.

Johnson County — which uses the Muscatine County Jail to house some of its inmates —threatening to cancel its contract with the jail over administrator’s “hateful” commentary.

A Muscatine company that operates a large, gas-powered dryer to process sand that it sells has failed for decades to obtain permits to update and operate it, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Laura Palmer, of Des Moines, created the design painted on the Muscatine water tower in 2020 after the city of 23,700 won a contest sponsored by the Iowa Finance Authority. This year, she’ll create the art for the Runnells water tower.

“Nature Connects,“ a vibrant, colorful temporary exhibition at the Muscatine Art Center was built one LEGO brick at a time, until after 3,202 hours, New York artist Sean Kenney had assembled 321,680 LEGO bricks into 17 creations related to the natural world.

Small plane went down in a cornfield; cause of crash under investigation

The Muscatine County sheriff said the names of the two victims, the number of the plane, the departure location and destination are all being withheld until after an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration.