Quad Cities venture will pursue research in advanced manufacturing, workforce training
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Quad Cities venture will pursue research in advanced manufacturing, workforce training
A Des Moines lawyer was indicted in Ohio on Friday for his involvement with online groups who create and distribute “animal crush videos.” The videos involve monkeys being tortured, mutilated and sexually abused.
Over 70 people reported seeing a meteor streak across the sky Friday morning in the Midwest, including several reports from folks in Eastern Iowa, according to data recorded by the American Meteor Society.
The South Dakota Supreme Court said the carbon dioxide pipeline company has not yet shown its project is eligible for eminent domain.
An Iowa City police officer was legally justified earlier this summer in shooting and injuring an armed man who was threatening suicide but refused more than a dozen orders to drop his gun, Johnson County Attorney Rachel Zimmerman Smith determined.
Kennedy had a speech planned in Arizona on Friday to discuss “the present historical moment and his path forward,” according to his campaign. Hours later, Trump will hold a rally in neighboring Glendale. Trump’s campaign has teased that he will be joined by “a special guest,” though neither campaign responded to messages about whether Kennedy would be that guest.
Cedar Rapids, Marion and Clear Creek Amana school districts are welcoming elementary students to brand new buildings as classes begin this month.
Also, Iowa announces first West Nile virus case for 2024
An Illinois man, who qualified as a career offender with three drug convictions, was sentenced to over 13 years in federal prison. He distributed what appeared to be heroin to a regular buyer who overdosed because the drug contained fentanyl.
Five years after discovering damaged and cracking windows throughout its 7-year-old Stead Family Children’s Hospital, the University of Iowa is about one-third through its massive window-replacement project — with work expected to continue through the end of 2025 or into early 2026.
The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference filed its strike notice against Canadian National shortly after it announced that it plans to challenge a government order that forced it into arbitration with both CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. railroads to end a lockout, said union spokesperson Marc-André Gauthier.
NEW Cooperative submitted its explanation to the state of its southwest Iowa spill that killed nearly 800,000 fish in the East Nishnabotna River in March.
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