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BY O. KAY HENDERSON Republicans in the Iowa Senate have given final approval to a bill that would no longer require Iowans to get state permits for buying and for carrying handguns in public. Senator Jason…

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR This is “Poison Prevention Week” and a spokesperson with the Iowa Poison Control Center in Sioux City says it’s a good time to look under our kitchen sinks and storage areas when…

Local County Emergency Management Agencies, Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEMD), National Weather Service (NWS), and Iowa Emergency Management Association (IEMA) have joined together to promote Severe Weather Awareness Week in Iowa.…

By MARIA CHENG and LAURAN NEERGAARD LONDON (AP) — AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine provided strong protection against sickness and eliminated hospitalizations and deaths from the disease across all age groups in a late-stage study in the…

BY DAR DANIELSON The NCAA basketball tournament is underway for the first time since sports gambling was legalized in Iowa. Racing and Gaming Administrator Brian Ohorilko says there’s a lot of excitement after last year’s tourney…

BY DAR DANIELSON The three Republicans who serve in the U.S. House have voted against bills that would create a path to citizenship for so-called Dreamers who were illegally brought into the U.S. as children and…

BY DAR DANIELSON The Iowa Supreme Court has rejected the request of a Knoxville man to overturn the civil verdict against him in his mother’s death. The 2017 verdict ordered Jason Carter to pay $10 million…

Garth Brooks was a virtual guest on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” where he opened up about wife Trisha Yearwood’s battle with COVID-19, and how the two spent their time together quarantining. “We used it to…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and AMY FORLITI MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A judge on Friday denied a defense request to delay or move the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death after…

BY RADIO IOWA CONTRIBUTOR The odds of being accepted as a new student at Grinnell College are becoming extraordinarily low, as the institution in Grinnell is seeing a tremendous jump in the number of prospective students.…