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The huge skillet is a testament to the small-town ingenuity and fortitude that has been part of Brandon since it was platted in 1854 and incorporated as a town in 1906.
All residents of Westhill Village Apartments in northwest Cedar Rapids have now been ordered to leave their homes to allow for repairs that an engineer has warned are needed to address structural issues that pose a potential threat to tenants’ safety.
The Cedar County sheriff said genetic genealogy was used to identify parents of a dead baby left in a barn in 1996. Investigators want to determine if the baby was alive when it was abandoned. The father has cooperated with police, but the mother has not.
Two broods — one that emerges every 13 years, and the other that emerges every 17 — will emerge at the same time, something that hasn’t happened in 200 years.
While Reynolds’ original bill would have restricted AEAs to providing only special education services, under the proposed amendment the state’s nine area education agencies would be allowed to continue offering education services as well as media services to school districts who request it, if approved by the state.
As written, the bill would make anyone convicted of first-degree murder eligible for the death penalty. But lawmakers said they would amend it to pertain only to someone who murders a law enforcement officer.
Reynolds’ campaign finished 2023 with nearly $1.7 million, her campaign said.
Iowa statehouse Republicans have proposed multiple changes to state law that would allow them greater access to the judicial process when a state law is challenged in court
There were 212 licensed psychiatrists practicing in the state in 2021, down from 236 in 2012, according to Iowa Health Professions Tracking Center.
The campaign arm of U.S. House Democrats announced Monday that Iowa City congressional candidate Christina Bohannan has been named to its “Red to Blue” program that works to help Democrats running against Republican incumbents flip control of competitive districts.
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