Helen Miller

Suspect in Iowa girl’s murder had been paroled weeks earlier

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa granted an early release from prison to a repeat offender just months before he allegedly kidnapped and killed a 10-year-old girl, according to parole documents released Tuesday.

U.S. News

Prosecutor says trial in Iowa student’s death won’t be easy

DAVENPORT, Iowa — A prosecutor warned prospective jurors Monday that the trial of a Mexican national charged in the 2018 fatal stabbing of a University of Iowa student will include graphic evidence that will be emotionally difficult to see and hear.

Business

Cedar Rapids tries to turn city of stumps into tree oasis

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Until one afternoon last August, Cedar Rapids had always been a lush, leafy island surrounded by a sea of corn and soybeans, with its giant oaks, sycamores and other trees towering over the community’s neighborhoods and providing a shady refuge from Iowa’s steamy summer heat.

Health

Iowa woman convicted of killing estranged hubby’s girlfriend

A Marion County jury deliberated for less than an hour before convicting Michelle Boat in the May 18, 2020, death of 46-year-old Tracy Mondabough, who was stabbed as she sat in her truck in Pella, The Ottumwa Courier

Europe

World Food Prize goes to nutrition expert for fish research

DES MOINES, Iowa — A nutrition expert who pioneered innovative ways of raising fish rich in micronutrients and fatty acids and incorporating them into diets in developing countries was named the recipient of the World Food Prize on Tuesday...

Des Moines

Suddenly competitive Iowa complicates Trump’s Midwest quest

DES MOINES, Iowa — After Donald Trump carried Iowa in 2016 by nearly 10 points, its swing state status was in doubt. But now, with stunning swiftness, Iowa Democrats have spun from distraught...

Football

Doyle out as Iowa strength coach; Barta standing by Ferentz

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa athletic director Gary Barta gave a vote of confidence to longtime football coach Kirk Ferentz on Monday after deciding to cut ties with a strength coach accused of...

MLB

Baseball plans game at Field of Dreams, but will they come?

DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Spurred by a voice telling him, “If you build it, he will come,” the Iowa farmer played by Kevin Costner dutifully carved a baseball field out of his cornfield and then...

New Hampshire

Anatomy of a political comeback: How Biden earned nomination

BALTIMORE — It seemed easy to write off Joe Biden.

Detroit Pistons

The Latest: Detroit Pistons set to reopen practice facility

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Iowa

Iowa Rep. King’s defeat marks moment of unity for GOP, Dems

DES MOINES, Iowa — The longer Steve King served in Congress, building up a repertoire of racist rhetoric and nativist sentiments, the more he unwittingly became a unifying force in American...

College football

Johnny Majors, former Tennessee and Pitt coach, dies at 85

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — College Football Hall of Famer Johnny Majors, the coach of Pittsburgh’s 1976 national championship team and a former coach and star player at Tennessee, died Wednesday. He...

Legislature

Iowa voters oust Rep. King, shunned for insensitive remarks

DES MOINES, Iowa — Republicans in northwest Iowa ousted Rep. Steve King in Tuesday’s primary, deciding they’ve had enough of the conservative lightning rod known for making incendiary...

Iowa

Democrats fight for chance to take on GOP Sen. Ernst in Iowa

DES MOINES, Iowa — Four relatively unknown Iowa Democrats are competing in a primary Tuesday to take on Republican Sen. Joni Ernst, an endeavor viewed as a long shot when better-known...

U.S. News

US food prices see historic jump and are likely to stay high

DES MOINES, Iowa — As if trips to the grocery store weren’t nerve-racking enough, U.S. shoppers lately have seen the costs of meat, eggs and even potatoes soar as the coronavirus has...

Auto Racing

The Latest: Iowa AD looking at different football scenarios

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MLB

The Latest: Iowa St AD sees football games with 30,000 fans

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General News

Shunned by his party, Iowa’s Steve King fights for his seat

DES MOINES, Iowa — Rep. Steve King is fighting for his political life — but not because he's compared immigrants crossing the border illegally to cattle. His Republican opponents in next...

General News

AP-NORC poll: Americans harbor strong fear of new infections

DES MOINES, Iowa — Strong concern about a second wave of coronavirus infections is reinforcing widespread opposition among Americans to reopening public places, a new poll finds, even as many...

General News

The Latest: West Wing visitors, staff need to wear masks

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...

Virus Outbreak

Pence says lack of religious services has been ‘burden’

URBANDALE, Iowa — Vice President Mike Pence spoke Friday to a group of faith leaders in Iowa about the importance of resuming religious services, saying the cancellations in the name of...

U.S. News

Pence to visit Des Moines amid increase in COVID-19 cases

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Vice President Mike Pence has called Iowa’s response to the coronavirus pandemic “a success story” but he may find a less rosy reality when he arrives Friday.

Homicide

Trucker charged in serial killings faces scrutiny across US

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Investigators from multiple states were looking Thursday into whether a long-haul trucker from Iowa who's implicated in at least three women's slayings in the 1990s could be...

Brazil

The Latest: UN ups appeal to fight virus to $6.7 billion

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...

General News

The Latest: Tyson Foods to reopen pork plant in Iowa

The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can...

Iowa

Coronavirus cuts ‘deep scars’ through meatpacking cities

IOWA CITY, Iowa — As the coronavirus spread from the nation’s meatpacking plants to the broader communities where they are located, it burned through a modest duplex in Waterloo,...

Iowa

Healthy pigs being killed as meatpacking backlog hits farms

DES MOINES, Iowa — After spending two decades raising pigs to send to slaughterhouses, Dean Meyer now faces the mentally draining, physically difficult task of killing them even before they...

Baseball

The Latest: Broncos’ Miller says he’s now negative for virus

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Michael Brown

Pork producer says it needs flexibility on virus guidelines

O'FALLON, Mo. — The world's largest pork producer told a judge in Missouri on Thursday that it was working as quickly as it can to comply with federal guidelines that seek to slow the spread...

Iowa

Trump order keeping meat packing plants open worries unions

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took executive action to order meat processing plants to stay open amid concerns over growing coronavirus cases and the impact on the nation's food...

General News

Trump orders meat processing plants to remain open

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took executive action Tuesday to order meat processing plants to stay open amid concerns over growing coronavirus cases and the impact on the nation's...

Iowa

Virus is expected to reduce meat selection and raise prices

DES MOINES, Iowa — Meat isn't going to disappear from supermarkets because of outbreaks of the coronavirus among workers at U.S. slaughterhouses. But as the meat plants struggle to remain...

Virus Outbreak

Coronavirus sweeps through Iowa firefighter’s family

IOWA CITY, Iowa — His mother first fell sick a month ago with an illness she believes she caught at the Iowa egg factory where she works.

Entertainment

The Latest: Champion KC picks LSU RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire

The Latest on the first round of the NFL draft.

Virus Outbreak

Iowa governor: Tip from Ashton Kutcher led to testing deal

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa’s governor said the state’s $26 million contract to increase coronavirus testing was reached after she acted on a tip from actor Ashton Kutcher, a revelation that...

Iowa

Tyson Foods idles largest pork plant as virus slams industry

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Tyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation's pork supply but was blamed for fueling a massive coronavirus outbreak in the...

Financial markets

US pork farmers panic as virus ruins hopes for great year

DES MOINES, Iowa — After enduring extended trade disputes and worker shortages, U.S. hog farmers were poised to finally hit it big this year with expectations of climbing prices amid soaring...

Public health

States work to keep meat plants open despite virus outbreaks

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Governors in the Midwest are working to keep large meatpacking plants operating despite coronavirus outbreaks that have sickened hundreds of workers and threaten to disrupt...