Year: 2017

Several southwest Iowa teens face punishment over a picture posted on social media. Officials with the Creston Community School District say at least five students face disciplinary action after a picture appeared on a social media post Wednesday that featured the teens wearing Ku Klux Klan-type hoods. One of the teens was holding a Confederate […]Powered by WPeMatico

Republican Senator Joni Ernst is not pleased with a deal President Trump has struck with Democratic congressional leaders. Trump agreed to the Democrats’ plan to link the first $8 billion of federal aid for Texas hurricane victims with an of the so-called “debt ceiling.” That’s the upper limit the federal government can borrow to pay its […]Powered by WPeMatico

A Council Bluffs man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison on a variety of drug-related convictions. In April, a jury found 65-year-old William Henry Adkins guilty of conspiracy to distribute meth as well as two counts related to possession of the drug. Prosecutors said Adkins was responsible for selling or trying to sell […]Powered by WPeMatico

If Iowa State cares more about the Cy-Hawk series than Iowa that is news to Hawkeye coach Kirk Ferentz. Saturday’s game in Ames will be the 40th since the modern series began in 1977 and it will be the 28th that Ferentz has been a part of as either an assistant or head coach. “I […]Powered by WPeMatico

Another mountain lion has been spotted in northwest Iowa — and this time it was captured on camera. A motion-sensor camera was set up by Aaron Anderson near the town of Linn Grove. He was hoping to film the movement of deer, but instead he caught a mountain lion in the images. He posted pictures […]Powered by WPeMatico

Quad Cities-based Deere & Company is spending millions to buy a Silicone Valley-based company. Deere will pay $305 million this month for Blue River Technology, a Sunnyvale, California, ag technology firm. Blue River has 60 employees and will remain in Sunnyvale. John May is president of Deere’s Agricultural Solutions. He says the Blue River team […]Powered by WPeMatico

A 12-year-old boy from southeast Iowa will serve as “Kid Captain” for the Iowa football team when the Hawkeyes take on Iowa State in Ames this Saturday. Flynn Lanferman of Mount Pleasant was just three years old when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a fast-growing cancer that affects the bone marrow and white […]Powered by WPeMatico

Republican Congressman David Young has developed a new plan for distributing a block of federal dollars reserved for water quality improvement projects. Young hopes to tack his idea onto the next Farm Bill and change the way money in the U.S.D.A.’s already-existing “Environmental Quality Incentive Program” is distributed. “You’ve heard of precision agriculture. I see […]Powered by WPeMatico