All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2021 // Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Oct. 29 signed into law a bill that allows Iowa workers to seek medical and religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine mandates and guarantees that those who are fired for refusing a vaccine will...
Oct 21 2021 // Federal officials say three U.S. subsidiaries of Dutch chemical giant LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Lyondell) have agreed to make upgrades and perform compliance measures estimated to cost $50 million to resolve...
Oct 11 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, acquired Dubuque, Iowa-based River Valley Capital Insurance Inc....
Sep 21 2021 // Iowa-based farm services provider NEW Cooperative Inc. said its systems were offline to contain a “cybersecurity” incident just as the U.S. farm belt gears up for harvest.The cooperative operates grain storage...
Sep 21 2021 // After a furious run of ransomware attacks in the first half of the year, President Joe Biden in July warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that Russia-based hacking groups should steer clear of 16 critical...
Sep 10 2021 // Global insurance broker USI Insurance Services announced the acquisition of Des Moines, Iowa-based Reynolds & Reynolds, Inc.Founded in 1976, Reynolds & Reynolds is an independent risk management and employee...
Aug 30 2021 // Officials in northeastern Iowa say a tornado caused significant damage, especially in the small town of Marble Rock. KCRG-TV reports that emergency management officials cited power lines and trees knocked over after a...
Aug 27 2021 // As a prominent reporter and anchor at one of Iowa’s biggest local television stations, Sonya Heitshusen was known for doggedly investigating injustices and holding the powerful accountable.A year after WHO-TV in Des...
Aug 20 2021 // A contractor that recently took over management of the University of Iowa utility system has been cited for safety violations after a worker fell into an underground steam tunnel and was injured, newly released records...
Aug 17 2021 // The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, City Council approved a $50,000 payment to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who said he was unjustly attacked by a city police dog last year.The lawsuit was filed by Howard Cones, who said he was...
Aug 6 2021 // A former Iowa insurance producer was recently sentenced after pleading guilty to an insurance fraud scheme.Dustin French of Red Oak, Iowa, pled guilty in July to one count of Theft 3rd Degree (Aggravated Misdemeanor). The...
Jul 23 2021 // Des Moines, Iowa, Chad Mackland, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, recently submitted an Alford plea to the charge of Ongoing Criminal Conduct (Class B Felony) in Pottawattamie County District Court following an investigation by...
Jul 19 2021 // Preliminary data shows more than two dozen tornadoes tore across Iowa on July 14, according to the National Weather Service.The service said in a tweet that it appears 26 tornadoes touched down. If that number holds true,...
Jul 16 2021 // No deaths or injuries were immediately reported from tornadoes that tore through central and eastern Iowa, but many found damaged buildings, shredded trees and overturned vehicles in the path of the storms, officials...
Jul 9 2021 // A teenager injured in an accident on an Iowa amusement ride that killed his younger brother remained on life support Wednesday as he turned 16, his family pastor said.David Jaramillo has been in a medically induced coma at...
Jul 8 2021 // A regulator has ordered an Iowa amusement park not to restart a popular boat ride pending an investigation into an accident that killed an 11-year-old boy and left his brother in critical condition.Iowa Labor Commissioner...
Jul 7 2021 // The father of an 11-year-old boy who died following an accident on a popular boat ride at an Iowa amusement park said that his son and other family members were trapped by the ride’s seat belts when the boat carrying...
Jul 6 2021 // Four people were hospitalized after a raft overturned Saturday on a ride at Adventureland Park.Six people were on a raft on the Raging River when the accident happened around 7:30 p.m. Three were transported in critical...
Jul 1 2021 // Roman Catholic priests sexually abused minors across Iowa for decades while church leaders covered it up, but reforms implemented in recent years have largely stopped the problem, a three-year review by Iowa’s...
Jun 30 2021 // The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that employers cannot subject all warehouse employees to random drug testing by designating them as having “safety sensitive” jobs.In its 4-3 ruling, the court ruled that...