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Annual cancer report spotlights racial disparities

The annual Cancer in Iowa report released today by University of Iowa researchers focuses on racial disparities among Iowa cancer diagnoses. Dr. Nalo Johnson, director of health promotion and chronic disease prevention at the Iowa Department of Public Health, says the report shows the age-adjusted cancer mortality rate for black Iowans is more than 25-percent […]

todayMarch 10, 2021

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Senate panel votes to end Iowa inheritance tax

Republicans on a senate committee have voted to phase out the state inheritance tax. The bill also would accelerate the plan to phase in state income tax cuts. Democrats oppose the moves, warning the state’s budget could take a billion dollar hit in a couple of years. Senator Pam Jochum, a Democrat from Dubuque, said […]

todayMarch 10, 2021

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Panel to proceed with review of Iowa’s 2nd district congressional race

A U.S. House Committee has voted to review Democrat Rita Hart’s challenge of the outcome in Iowa’s Second Congressional District race. State officials declared Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks the winner by six votes and Miller-Meeks has been a provisional member of the U.S. House since January. “The American people deserve to know who actually won this […]

todayMarch 10, 2021

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Iowa State’s Donarski is Big 12’s top freshman

Iowa State’s Lexi Donarski was named the unanimous Big 12 Freshman of the Year, becoming the first Cyclone to earn the prestigious honor since Megan Taylor in 1998. Donarski put together a blistering freshman campaign, averaging 13.1 points, while shooting 40.4 percent from the floor and 41.4 percent from long range. Her 48 triples on […]

todayMarch 10, 2021

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Reporter aquitted of charges in arrest at protest

A jury has acquitted Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri of charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts at a protest at a Des Moines Mall on May 31st of last year. Sahouri’s then-boyfriend, Spenser Robnett, was also found not guilty of the same two charges. Prosecutor Bradley Kincade told jurors during […]

todayMarch 10, 2021

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Governor says Iowa to cross one million mark in Covid vaccinations this week

The one-year anniversary of the first cases of Covid being reported in the state was this past Monday and Governor Kim Reynolds said today that Iowa is about to hit another, more positive milestone. It’s projected the one-millionth Iowan will be vaccinated against the virus sometime in the next few days. “As of yesterday, the […]

todayMarch 10, 2021

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Trial of reporter arrested at protest goes to jury

Attorneys gave their closing arguments today in the trial of a Des Moines Register reporter arrested in May at a protest at a Des Moines Mall. Prosecutor Bradley Kincade told jurors they need to consider three things to find Andrea Sahouri and her then boyfriend Spenser Robnett guilty of failure to disperse and interference with […]

todayMarch 10, 2021

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Dubuque venue to hold first concert since COVID shutdown

A concert venue in northeast Iowa plans to hold an arena-style country music concert this weekend, its first big show in a full calendar year due to COVID-19. H.R. Cook, general manager of Five Flags Center in Dubuque, says it’ll be the first major event at the facility since “The Price is Right Live!” played […]

todayMarch 10, 2021

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Senator proposes hunting regulation changes, to thin deer herd

Senator Ken Rozenboom of Oskaloosa says the deer population is too large in some areas of the state and it’s time to change some of the state’s hunting regulations. “In Appanoose County…the DNR’s target was to have 2,700 deer taken this past year,” Rozenboom says, “but only 2,200 were taken, so that’s 500 deer that […]

todayMarch 10, 2021

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