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3 hrs ago | KWQC-TV Davenport

Trial set for Iowa mom accused of killing twins

An April trial is scheduled for a central Iowa woman accused of killing her newborn twin daughters and hiding their bodies in the trunk of her car.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

5 hrs ago | WHO-TV

Rail Plans: The Iowa Dot is urging Iowans to weigh in on several...

Iowa Department of Transportation officials are asking for the public's input on a proposed passenger rail line from Chicago, through Iowa, to Omaha.

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6 hrs ago | KCRG

Iowa House Panel Approves Eight Cent Fuel Tax Increase

A five-member Iowa House panel has unanimously approved a plan to increase the state's fuel tax by 8 cents a gallon.

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8 hrs ago | The Gazette

Photo shop loses photos of Iowa woman's children killed in crash

A mother is hoping that whoever has the negatives and photos of her two children will return them to the Des Moines photo shop that misplaced them.

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12 hrs ago | Towleroad

Demonstraters Protest Iowa Pastor's 'Gay is Not Okay' Sermon: VIDEO

On Friday, I posted about a "Gay is Not Okay" marquee put up in front of Rev. Michael Demastus' Church of Christ in Des Moines.

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Related Topix: Iowa Government

16 hrs ago | Hawk Eye

Eastern Iowa Tire rolls into Burlington

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Hank Bundy, a service technician, and Tom Luttenegger, a tire technician at Eastern Iowa Tire, stand Wednesday next to the company's 24-hour road service truck.

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Related Topix: Burlington, IA, Bloomfield, IA, Ottumwa, IA, Davis County, IA

Sun Feb 12, 2012

WHTC

As Xi visits, China's U.S. crop demand a ba...

China is half a world away from the 2,300-acre family farm in east-central Iowa where John Weber and his son plant corn and soybeans.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, World News, China

KTIV-TV Sioux City

Commercial property tax reduction on the minds of many Iowans

Iowa has one of the highest commercial property taxes in the nation and it's one of the issues lawmakers have been grappling with since the last session.

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People's Daily Online

Iowa to welcome return of Xi Jinping

From the power centers of Washington to a soybean farm in Iowa and on to sunny Southern California, China's Vice President Xi Jinping will sample diverse slices of America during a major visit this week.

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Related Topix: Xi Jinping, US Politics, US News, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Terry Branstad, US Governors

Hawk Eye

Spiker elected new Iowa GOP chairman

A.J. Spiker has been elected the new chairman of the Iowa Republican Party. Spiker, a former Story County GOP chairman, was elected Saturday by the Iowa GOP's Central Committee.

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Related Topix: Mitt Romney, US Politics, US News

The Gazette

Associated Press wrote a new blog post: Opponents of new Iowa nuclear ...

Steam rises from cooling towers at the FPL Duane Arnold Energy Center beside the Cedar River in this aerial image taken over Palo on Friday, Nov.

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TwinCities

Iowa man's project aids African farmers

For a year and a half , Iowa engineer James Norton has been tinkering with a plow to help Ugandan farmers.

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Related Topix: Travel, Africa, Nigeria Travel, South Africa Travel, Nigeria Travel, Africa, South Africa Travel, Africa, Mali Travel, Mali Travel, University of Wyoming

The Messenger

Tax help set for rural Iowans

Low- and moderate-income Iowans can have their tax returns prepared for free by trained and IRS-certified volunteers at nearly 150 sites across Iowa.

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Related Topix: Tax

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Tama News-Herald

Get Ready For Spring (Housecleaning for Iowa)

Let's get ready to celebrate! We can start thinking of spring, warmer weather, the countryside turning green and probably a great deal of litter and trash on the roadsides and the landscape.

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Related Topix: Weather

WHO-AM Des Moines

A.J. Spiker replaces Matt Strawn as Iowa GOP head

A.J. Spiker was elected to serve out the remaining portion of departing chairman Matt Strawn, whose term is up in 2013.

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Related Topix: Tom Latham, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, US News

WOI-TV West Des Moines

Iowa man sentenced for child pornography charge

A 33-year-old Iowa man who photographed his sexual abuse of a child was sentenced Friday to more than 27 years in federal prison.

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Prison

WHBF-TV Rock Island

Iowa man sentenced on federal drug charges

A Columbus Junction man has been sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for drug convictions.

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Prison, Drug Enforcement Administration

WOI

Bill allowing GPS tracking leaves some uneasy

The measure would let police attach a device to a suspect's car that uses global positioning system technology to track its movement if a judge approves a warrant.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, GPS, Iowa Government

TwinCities

Hearing set for Iowa woman accused in '19 Kids and Counting' extortion plot

An Iowa woman charged with threatening to release damaging photographs of a cast member of the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting" if she wasn't paid $10,000 is expected to appear in court.

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Related Topix: Entertainment

Fri Feb 10, 2012

WHO-TV

Fema Mistake: Fema accidentally paid Iowans over $200,000 in disaster relief for the 2010 floods

The Federal Emergency Management Agency mistakenly paid 180 Iowans more than $229,000 dollars in disaster relief during the 2010 floods.

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