Month: August 2017

Governor Kim Reynolds this morning said “words matter” and she rejected the kind of “racist bigotry” on display this past weekend in Virginia. “It’s unacceptable. It can’t be tolerated,” Reynolds said. “There is absolutely no place for the hatred we saw on display there.” Reynolds made the comments during her weekly news conference this morning — a few […]Powered by WPeMatico

The man accused of killing Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Burbridge to death and wounding another deputy was sentenced today after changing his plea. A Pottawattamie County District judge sentenced 24-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty to life in prison, plus 175 years after he entered guilty pleas to first-degree murder, attempted murder, escape, kidnapping and other crimes. […]Powered by WPeMatico

Two Iowa men have been sentenced to prison on separate child pornography charges. Thirty-eight-year-old Shawn Beu of Council Bluffs was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography in April. An investigation started by the Department of Homeland Security into a cloud storage facility led to the location of […]Powered by WPeMatico

A Democrat who’s been campaigning since this spring has suspended his bid for governor. State Representative Todd Prichard of Charles City said he’s witnessed “a real dissatisfaction with how the state is currently being run,” but Prichard said he does “not see a path forward” for him to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor next […]Powered by WPeMatico

Governor Kim Reynolds has called a DOT graphic artist who’s getting negative online feedback about three proposed designs for new Iowa license plates. “It’s okay to have an opinion,” Reynolds said today, “but it’s not okay to make ’em personal.” Christina Anderson said in a recent Facebook post she’s been driven to tears by the […]Powered by WPeMatico

A Spencer man is in custody and the list of offenses he’s been charged with has been extended after a brief stand-off at his home on Monday. A Spencer police officer and a deputy sheriff from Clay County went to 30-year-old Nathan Tesch’s home at about 10:30 Monday morning to notify him he was the subject […]Powered by WPeMatico

Governor Kim Reynolds is giving a thumbs down to proposed tuition hikes at the three state universities in Ames, Cedar Falls and Iowa City. “That is too much. There is no way that Iowa families could afford a seven percent increase over five years,” Reynolds said this morning. “And so I would encourage the Regents […]Powered by WPeMatico

An Iowa native who now lives on the faraway island of Guam says the fear is fading after last week’s nuclear threat by North Korea’s leader. Jeff Nelson is originally from Jewell and is an associate pastor of a church on Guam. Nelson says Kim Jong Un’s threat was specific, that he planned to aim […]Powered by WPeMatico