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University of Iowa Health Care – undertaking more than $1 billion in new, expanded, or upgraded facility projects – wants to increase patient rates 6 percent in the upcoming budget year beginning July 1 to keep up with health care inflation, among other things.

But Iowa senator, House members continue defense of Trump

Also, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds appoints a district judge in Eastern Iowa

School board member J.P. Claussen resigns to take teaching position at Iowa City West High School

A state lawmaker is demanding the University of Iowa immediately audit its animal testing programs and pursue alternative research methods based on a watchdog group’s findings that UI researchers experimented on donated “pet dogs” who then were “euthanized and dissected, despite the available treatments.”

An owner of a commercial dog breeding farm pleads to five charges of animal neglect and received a year of probation. He surrendered 131 dogs last year.

An Associated Press photographer captured a moment between two Iowa natives — 103-year-old Fred Taylor, who commanded a P51 Mustang during World War II, and 19-year-old Sawyer Slezak, a 2023 Prairie High School graduate and cadet third class at the U.S. Air Force Academy — when the two of them were in France last week to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

According to the alert, which went out shortly after 7 p.m., police are looking for 15-year-old Ophelia Anne Barton, who is described as a white female, five feet tall, weighing 80 pounds. She has brown hair and hazel eyes.