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WASHINGTON – Today, majority members of the U.S. Agricultural Committee who helped pass the 2014 Farm Bill said that the measure will address misuse and protect food assistance for those in the
WASHINGTON – On Monday, January 27, 2014, House-Senate negotiators announced a bipartisan agreement on final farm bill touting the agreement as a reform to agriculture policy and deficit reduction as it grows
Reflections on the War on Poverty Delivered Monday, January 27, 2014 by Senator Chuck Grassley – January 8, 2014, marked the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s call for a War on Poverty. This anniversary
DES MOINES – Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to a post-recession low of 4.2 percent in December from a revised November rate of 4.3 percent, Iowa Workforce Development reported Tuesday. The
CHICAGO – The College Athletes Player Association (CAPA) has submitted a petition to the National Labor Relations Board to assert the labor rights of Northwestern University football players. If successful, athletes across
OMAHA – United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on January 24, 2014, United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Cameron Mitchell, age 53 of Lincoln, to 370 months in
DES MOINES – A left-wing Iowa-based political group took issue today after remarks from Christian conservative activist and former political candidate Bob Vander Plaats. According to Progress Iowa, during his remarks today
JACKSONVILLE – United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced James Daniel Kasper (29, Jacksonville) to 20 years in federal prison for using a child to produce child pornography. Kasper was also
Toledo, OH – At approximately noon on Saturday, members of the Rossford Police Department and the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force (NOVFTF) arrested Adolphus Hollingsworth on charges he murdered his estranged
LONDON – Saint Joseph Health System Inc., d/b/a Saint Joseph London Hospital (Saint Joseph) has agreed to pay the U.S. government $16.5 million to resolve civil allegations that it submitted false or
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa – January 28, 2014 – Alliant Energy’s Iowa utility announced today its partnership with eleven local businesses across the State of Iowa in The Sustainability Circle program. David Vollmar, key
DENVER—Pastor Charles Lawrence Kennedy, Jr., age 71, of Tampa, Florida, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve one year and a day in federal prison
KANSAS CITY, MO—Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Chillicothe, Missouri, husband and wife were indicted by a federal grand jury today for filing a
WASHINGTON – President Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union address tonight and offer his plan for 2014. The address will be televised on news channels, as well as in
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve King released the following comments he submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Gina McCarthy on January 28, to show his support for the Renewable Fuel
AMES – The Ames police department arrested a man who displayed a gun on campus, part of an apparent road rage incident. Patrick Allen Stall, 22, of 327 E. Seventh St., Apartment
RURAL MASON CITY – The weather has been brutal during yet another polar vortex in the winter of 2013-2014, and it has tested residents and civil servants alike. Deputies and police officers
WASHINGTON – Steadfast Republican and critic of President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday what he hopes to hear from the president in his State of the Union Address that will be delivered tonight.
DES MOINES – Attorney General Tom Miller today urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to decline to waive the national Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). “It’s clear that Congress intended to establish
WASHINGTON – Pavel Zborovskiy, 57, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks in connection with a $13 million health care fraud and money
WASHINGTON – Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a Russian national also known as “Gribodemon” and “Harderman,” has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud for his role as the primary developer
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of a law that Congressman John L. Mica (FL-07) created to provide immunity from civil liability to airlines and their employees
MAYNARD, IOWA – Two northeast Iowa men were arrested after a drunken slugfest in this small northeast Iowa town Sunday. According to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office, on Sunday at about 2:30
From Senator Ted Cruz of Texas – Today, the world pauses on Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember the pure evil that engulfed the world more than 69 years ago as we celebrate
AMES – University police Ames are looking for a man in foreign car who displayed a gun. According to ISU police, they are investigating an incident near Lied Recreation Center in which
FRANKLIN COUNTY – Six people were injured Sunday afternoon while traveling north on Interstate 35 in Franklin county. According to a report, all six person were from Mason City and traveling in
MASON CITY – A notorious Iowa woman who was convicted of helping a drug kingpin of murdering 4 people will face a sentencing hearing in August. Angela Johnson, age 50 and formerly
MASON CITY – According to documents from City Hall, Mason City water and sanitation customers could face large rate increases for both services. According to a projected budget directly from City Hall,
DES MOINES – Attorney General Tom Miller on Monday urged U.S. trade representative Michael Froman to ensure that states can continue to enforce tobacco products under the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), which
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), a farm bill conferee, today issued the following statement after the Senate-House conference committee reached an agreement on a new bill. The bipartisan, bicameral agreement
MASON CITY – A local woman who was supposed to remain incarcerated at the Beje Clark halfway house but never returned was caught days later by police. Mason City police confirmed Monday
NIT – The Republican party might have finally “got it” in the wake of publishing a controversial “is someone a racist” flowchart to its Facebook page, after it has apparently fired the
MINNEAPOLIS – Today, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton announced a concerted, organized effort to bring the 2018 Super Bowl to Minneapolis. The announcement today follows an October revelation that Minnesota is one of
MASON CITY – Getting your car egged in Mason City has happened to many residents, and catching the perpetrator is never easy for police. On Sunday, a Mason City woman noticed her
MASON CITY – A wanted North End man was taken to jail after refusing to stop his vehicle when police ordered him to do so. According to Mason City police, an officer
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A recently retired captain for the Los Angeles County Fire Department pleaded guilty in federal court Monday, admitting he ran an illegal gambling business for more than a
MASON CITY – Bitter cold and high winds continue to make travel inadvisable in the North Iowa area Monday. Cars and trucks were reported to be in ditches around the region, and
DES MOINES – A convicted murderer from Mason City was denied an appeal last week. Michael Weatherspoon, now age 43, was found guilty back 1998 in the murder of Jerry Dean and
00NEW YORK – The Syrian Government has agreed to allow women and children in the besieged Syrian city of Homs to leave “immediately”, the Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and
KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. Forces-Afghanistan has learned that under direction of the Afghan government, the Afghan Review Board, led by Abdul Shakoor Dadras, has ordered the release of the first 37 of