All the headlines from our Iowa Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 14 2020 // The former office manager of the Iowa City Area Development Group was sentenced Friday to 27 months in prison for a 13-year theft scheme in which she misspent more than a half-million dollars, federal prosecutors...
Sep 10 2020 // Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were on edge as early as March when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them.The Centers for Disease Control and...
Sep 4 2020 // Tyson Foods is planning to open medical clinics at several of its U.S. plants to improve the health of its workers and better protect them from the coronavirus.The Springdale, Arkansas-based company, which processes about...
Sep 3 2020 // On Sunday night, Aug. 9, Bill Gallus said nobody was talking about severe storms – or even rain – hitting central Iowa over the next five days. That was also true early the next morning.“The last thing in the...
Aug 31 2020 // Insurance adjusters who descended on Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after the Aug. 10 derecho storm are using drones to check roofs and asking homeowners with less severe damage to take their own photos.Some of this is due to the...
Aug 28 2020 // Iowa set a new record for confirmed coronavirus cases Thursday with nearly 1,500 cases, far more than the previous high set in April.In the last 24 hours as of Thursday morning, Iowa recorded 1,475 confirmed cases,...
Aug 24 2020 // President Donald Trump has approved Federal Emergency Management Agency funding for eastern Iowa’s Linn County, which was the county that was hardest hit by last week’s rare hurricane-strength windstorm.Gov....
Aug 20 2020 // An aggressive push by Iowa’s pro-Trump governor to reopen schools amid a worsening coronavirus outbreak has descended into chaos, with some districts and teachers rebelling and experts calling the scientific...
Aug 19 2020 // President Donald Trump said he had signed an emergency declaration for Iowa to help supply federal money to help the state recover from an unusual wind storm that struck a week ago but federal emergency management...
Aug 17 2020 // U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he approved federal disaster aid for Iowa after a hurricane-force storm hit last week, causing widespread damage in towns and farms and leaving thousands without power.Iowa...
Aug 16 2020 // A storm packing hurricane-force winds last Monday impacted 37.7 million acres of farmland across the Midwest, including 14 million in Iowa, the Iowa Soybean Association said on Friday, citing estimates from the U.S....
Aug 13 2020 // The impact of a windstorm that tore through the Midwest has continued to grow, as widespread power outages have kept businesses closed, limited communication, spoiled food and caused long lines at gas stations.The rare...
Aug 12 2020 // The Derecho storm that hit the Midwest on Aug. 10 potentially impacted some 10 million acres (4 million hectares) of Iowa farmland and millions of bushels of grain storage in the top U.S. corn growing state, Iowa...
Aug 11 2020 // A storm packing hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. Midwest on Aug. 10, causing widespread property damage in cities and rural towns and leaving more than half a million homes and businesses without power.The storm...
Aug 10 2020 // The mother of an 18-year-old University of Iowa student who froze to death in January 2019 is suing the school for negligence.Michael Belz, of Cedar Rapids, was caught outside of his residence hall on the night of Jan. 29,...
Aug 5 2020 // Two workers installing internet cables in Pella, Iowa, died after striking an underground, high-voltage electrical cable.Pella Police Lt. Paul Haase said the workers died Saturday morning after striking the electrical...
Jul 23 2020 // The first confirmed coronavirus outbreak at an Iowa meatpacking plant was far more severe than previously known, with more than twice as many workers becoming infected than the state Department of Public Health told the...
Jul 22 2020 // A workers’ compensation insurer cannot charge an employer an extra $1.7 million in premiums for the risk presented by employees who were exempt from coverage under Iowa’s workers’ compensation law, a...
Jul 20 2020 // A Davenport, Iowa, police officer who stomped on the ankle of a suspect used unreasonable force but cannot be held liable for doing so, a federal appeals court ruled on July 9.The 2015 stomp by officer Brian Stevens...
Jul 14 2020 // Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based First MainStreet Insurance (FMSI), a TrueNorth affiliate, has added three new firms to its family of insurance agencies — two in Iowa and one in Tennessee.FMSI acquired Sisson and Associates of...