A hearing Monday on Iowa school districts’ processes for reviewing and removing school library books and materials some parents and community members deem obscene devolved into testy exchanges between Democrats and Republicans
Prosecutor said there’s no doubt Stanley Donahue was the man who robbed the Casey’s in Coggon June 20, 2021, and shot the deputy seven times. Defense argued there is reasonable doubt, and repeatedly said Donahue’s brother could be a suspect.
Iowa property owners are off the hook for about $130 million in taxes they would have otherwise paid under an erroneous assessment formula, but local governments are left holding the bag under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Dozens of automated external defibrillators and trauma first aid kits — valued at over $100,000 — will go to first-responders, ambulance crews, churches and nonprofit organizations in Benton, Jones and Linn counties.
Eric Branstad and Bobby Kaufmann will be senior advisers as the former president pursues the GOP presidential nomination
A Cedar Rapids 16-year-old is accused of shooting multiple times at other individuals Saturday, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint doesn’t state whether his arrest is related to the fatal shooting of another juvenile in the same area also Saturday.
Newly announced Republican presidential candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley will host a town hall in Marion on Tuesday.
The city used federal pandemic aid, supplemented with local funds, for a $1.3 million voluntary relocation program intended to help residents of the mobile home park find safe, stable housing ahead of the park’s closure.
The 2023 HER Speak Up! series will focus on the theme of Giving Grace.
Follow Gazette Reporter Trish Mehaffey’s live coverage from the courtroom
Nikki Haley is swinging through Iowa this week fresh off announcing her presidential campaign. Her fellow South Carolinian Republican, Sen. Tim Scott, will also be here as he decides his political future. And former Vice President Mike Pence was just in the state courting influential evangelical Christian activists.
Johnson County has been designated a HeartSafe Community as local partners continue informing residents how to effectively intervene if they witness someone in sudden cardiac arrest.
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