To settle a lawsuit scheduled for trial in May, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of one of two Iowa State University students who died three years ago on Little Wall Lake during a crew club accident.
Former Clutier city clerk embezzled over $108,000 while employed from 2016 to 2018. She wrote unauthorized checks to herself, deposited residents’ utility payments into her checking account and used the city’s credit card for personal purchases. She was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison following state court theft conviction.
The John Deere Foundation has committed $6.6 million over six years to a collaboration with the University of Iowa and Davenport Community School District to provide additional education, support services and funds to high school seniors.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections.
A Nebraska funeral home discovered that a 74-year-old hospice patient who was declared dead by her nursing home two hours earlier was actually still alive, so workers started CPR and she was rushed to a hospital, where she died hours later.
Chemical castration uses medications that block testosterone production to decrease sex drive. Surgical castration is a much more invasive procedure.
The project would create a better connection between downtown and the northern part of town as well as reduce traffic on residential roads in the area.
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Chief Judge Thomas Bower of the Iowa Court of Appeals will take early retirement in July after serving 31 years on the bench and a total of 38 years in the legal profession. He says it’s time to spend more time with his family, including a new grandchild, and do some traveling.
Meantime, a year later Iowa has not replaced an interstate compact for comparing voter registration lists across states.
Local partners are looking to hire a new talent attraction director who will work to grow the Cedar Rapids metro’s labor force as partner communities aim to address worker shortage woes.
A month since several regents and lawmakers criticized Iowa’s public universities for keeping too close to the vest details on their progress to pare down diversity, equity, and inclusion functions, the University of Iowa has shared a campuswide update on its new “Division of Access Opportunity & Diversity.”
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