Eleven family members gave heart wrenching victim impact statements about their loved ones — correctional officer Robert McFarland and nurse Lorena Schulte — during sentencing for Anamosa inmate, Thomas Woodard.
Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport Thursday. Several Marines were killed and a number of other American military were wounded, a U.S. official said.
Breaking ties as the Boy Scouts of America face widespread sexual abuse accusations is intended to protect the churches from further liability.
Democrats repeated the party’s demand last week that Gov. Reynolds reverse her earlier decision to reject $95 million in federal funds that could be used for COVID-19 mitigation in schools.
Unlike the spike in cases last winter, more than half the new cases are among younger Iowans.
University of Iowa planners promise residents of the historic Manville Heights neighborhood not to replace its quaint former marching band field with a busy student-focused high rise. And they vowed not to let the space morph into a shopping hub or become home to a warehouse.
Live video plus tweets from reporter Trish Mehaffey, who is in Jones County District Court for the sentencing hearing of Thomas Woodard. Earlier this month, Woodard pleaded guilty on two counts of first-degree murder, and one count each of attempted murder and second-degree kidnapping for the March attacks on correctional officer Robert McFarland and prison nurse Lorena Schulte.
The Iowa City Human Rights Commission is seeking nominations for its 38th Annual Human Rights Awards. Individuals, businesses, or organizations whose ongoing work, service, or contributions have positively impacted Human Rights either locally or abroad may be nominated.
Expert arborists to teach homeowners to plant and care for urban trees
Marion man sentenced to 9 months in federal prison for bilking unemployment benefits from Arizona. He withdrew some of the funds in cash and used a Bitcoin ATM to send the funds to other participants in the scheme. He also kept some for himself.
The reason Iowa City, with 74,000 residents, doesn’t have a water tower goes back to the early 1970s, when city leaders decided ground storage reservoirs required less maintenance than elevated water towers.
Though the number of new cases and hospitalizations and deaths due to the infection are far less than a peak last winter, Iowa is experiencing a third surge of the disease that’s being fueled by the more contagious delta variant despite the widespread availability of a free vaccine to ward off the worst symptoms — including death.
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