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By PAUL J. WEBER and JILL BLEED AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Many of the millions of Texans who lost power for days after a deadly winter blast overwhelmed the electric grid now have it back,…

A bill providing public schools extra money to cover Covid-related costs has won bipartisan approval in the Iowa House. $27 million would be split among all districts, but Republican Representative Dustin Hite of New Sharon…

Iowa grocery stores could opt out of accepting empty containers covered by the state's nickel deposit law under legislation that has cleared a Senate subcommittee. Senator Ken Rozenboom, a Republican from Oskaloosa, says his bill…

Tennessee Rep. John Mark Windle recently introduced legislation that would create a fund to pay for the design, construction, establishment and maintenance of a Dolly Parton statue at the Tennessee Capitol. Well, it turns out…

Someone who broke into a home in rural Wapello County was shot and killed by the homeowner.  Around 9:20 Thursday night (2/18), Wapello County Sheriff’s Deputies received a 911 call that a man was trying…

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths, health officials are reporting. Minorities…

BY O. KAY HENDERSON Governor Kim Reynolds says it’s time for an ethanol mandate in Iowa, to boost an industry battered by the EPA’s resistance to the federal ethanol production mandate. “It’s such an important industry…

Police have identified a man killed and a suspect who was arrested in a stabbing at a northern Iowa pork processing plant. Wayne Smith, 50, of Fort Dodge, was the man stabbed to death, and…

Within days of abandoning a plan to hire a private company to establish a statewide call center to help residents set up coronavirus vaccine appointments, Iowa officials on Wednesday said they have cancelled a deal…