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Selection Sunday: Iowa women's basketball finds out March Madness seeding
The wait is over. It is Selection Sunday, and the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team is dancing in the NCAA Tournament. After a strong run through the back half of the regular season and a good showing in the Big Ten Tournament, Iowa has been a lock for the field for some time. All that was left for the Hawkeyes was to find out their March Madness seeding, opponent and destination. The bracket is now locked, and Iowa has drawn a path that could see it make a run. With the Women's NCAA Tournament set to begin on Thursday,...
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Iowa financial advisor ordered to repay investors $2.3 million
The Iowa insurance commissioner has ordered a Johnston company and its owner to repay $2.3 million that 15 investors lost in an oil-and-gas operation that regulators have likened to a Ponzi scheme. Regulators say one of the victims of the alleged scheme by Des Moines investment advisor Cory J. Dawkins...
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How an Iowa woman became a key witness in her own murder
On the morning of Oct. 8, 2022, the serene Mississippi River town of Bellevue, Iowa, population about 2,500, woke up to a calamity — news of an apparent homicide, the first in nearly a decade. Dozens of investigators from six different law enforcement agencies were combing the crime scene at the Mississippi Ridge Boarding Kennels with body cameras rolling. The woman who ran the kennels, Angela Prichard, 55, had been gunned down. Her sister, Wendy Budde, believed she knew who was responsible: Angela's husband, Chris Prichard. Wendy Budde (emotional): He knew how to get in the front door. Jonathan...
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Jeep Wrangler crashes into median, ejecting driver through roof on Interstate 380
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A 64-year-old man is in critical condition after being ejected from his vehicle during a crash on Interstate 380. Police say the crash happened around 10:15 when a 2011 Jeep Wrangler traveling northbound on I-380 at the U.S. Highway 30 overpass drifted off the roadway into the median and striking the bridge guardrail.
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Disturbance at Comiskey Park in Dubuque
To ensure the privacy of the juveniles their faces were obscured in the photograph. The Dubuque Police Department responded to a significant disturbance at Coniskay Park involving a group of individuals. Video footage captured on Snapchat and subsequently transmitted to us revealed their unruly conduct. As the summer season approaches, it is imperative for law enforcement agencies to maintain heightened vigilance in park areas to safeguard public safety.
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New superintendent hired for the Grundy Center School District
The Grundy Center School Board has hired Dr. Ann Lebo as the next district superintendent. Lebo is the current community services bureau chief for the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. Before that, she was director of the Iowa Department of Education, the highest ranking state official appointed by...
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Eastern Iowa murder case to be featured on 48 Hours national episode Saturday
BELLEVUE, Iowa — The story of a Jackson County woman who was shot and killed at her dog-boarding business will be featured on the newest episode of 48 Hours. Angela Prichard was murdered in October 2022 in Bellevue, and her estranged husband Chris was found guilty in February 2024 of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to life last year.
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Carter Morton- Heptahlon DI All-American!
History on more than one level was made Saturday when Carter Morton of Jefferson became a Division I First Team All-American in the seven event Heptathlon in Virginia Beach, VA at the track & field indoor championships. Morton, a fifth year athlete at the U. of Northern Iowa, placed fifth in the 16 person field after entering with the tenth highest regular season score of 5,807. On Friday and Saturday, Morton scored a personal best 5,852 points. He won the long jump and high jump, was fourth in pole vault, eighth in the 1,000 meter run, twelfth in the shot put, thirteenth in the 60 meter hurdles, and fourteenth in the 60 meter dash.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Organizes Black Author ‘Read-In’ After Waterloo, Iowa, District Cancels Due To Trump’s Anti-DEI Policies
Waterloo allegedly canceled the original read-in event under threat from the Trump administration's new education initiatives. Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Howard University professor has taken it into her own hands to keep Black writers and authors in the forefront. On March 15, Hannah-Jones hosted her very own Waterloo, Iowa, “African American Read-In,” after the original one was canceled due to President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold K-12 funding if schools do not remove diversity from their curriculum.