One or more intruders broke into an Iowa mink farm in western Iowa and released 2,000 of the furbearing animals in what a trade group called a “terrorist act” under federal law.
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One or more intruders broke into an Iowa mink farm in western Iowa and released 2,000 of the furbearing animals in what a trade group called a “terrorist act” under federal law.
The law, which remains blocked, would make it a state crime for an individual to enter or be found in Iowa if that individual has previously been denied admission to or been deported from the United States.
A Johnson County district judge Friday ordered the state to stop removing historic material from the 168-year-old State Historical Society’s Iowa City research facility that it unexpectedly decided to close without warning or public discussion.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 22 years for sexually assaulting a child over the course of six years. The child was 6 years old when the abuse started and didn’t end until she was 12 years old.
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A new legal challenge in Iowa argues that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and a meatpacking company coordinated behind the scenes to keep details of a “sweetheart deal” settlement from the public. The settlement between the state and meatpacker Agri Star Meat and Poultry LLC included an agreement by the company to pay a $50,000 fine for around 60 water pollution violations — an amount equivalent to one day of intentional Clean Water Act violations.
Revenue sharing with student athletes will account for at least $41 million, or 13 percent, of Iowa’s public university athletic department expenses this budget year, according to the first higher education-related research report from the two-year-old Iowa branch of the nonpartisan Common Sense Institute.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a bomb threat that was reported to the Alburnett School District Friday through a voicemail, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.
Fishing column: Iowan Nathan Randall was looking for something new and found Shefish in Kotzebue
Started over a decade ago, the Hawks to Go tailgate has helped raise money to the children’s hospital before every Hawkeye football game.
First responding police officers were able to find a ladder and pull a person from the porch roof of a burning home in Cedar Rapids Thursday night.
This week on the On Iowa Politics podcast, we talk about the No Kings rallies in Iowa, Rob Sand’s 100th town hall, and Iowa’s DOGE report.
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