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SIOUX CITY – A Hampton man who distributed methamphetamine was sentenced June 28, 2023, to 8 years in federal prison.
DES MOINES – In front of rabid, radical right-wing evangelical audience Friday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds decried the “inhumanity of abortion” and signed the “fetal heartbeat” bill into law, dramatically outlawing some abortions in the state.
WEBSTER CITY – Police say an Iowa felon illegally possessing a gun shot himself, then called cops to report a armed man in his yard.
IOWA CITY – An Iowa man, reportedly an Iowa national guardsmen, died after jogging in Iowa City when a teen driver inadvertently ran him down in a crosswalk.
MASON CITY – Mason City will undergo another large road construction project on its main road through town, building upon a former project completed late last decade.
Helena Kopera Lamoreux, 97 of Mason City, died Wednesday, July 12, 2023, at the Heritage Care and Rehabilitation Center. Helena was born December 17, 1925, in Brzeznica-Debica Poland, coming to America in October 1948. Those were the years before the Nazis invaded her homeland, making her a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany.
David John Otto Rhoades 27, of Mason City, Iowa, died July 6, 2023, in Mason City, Iowa. David attended various schools, with the last one being at Mason City Community School District.