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IOWA CITY — JoEllen Browning was about to find out about her husband’s risky high-interest loans, the manipulation of the couple’s savings account and his falsified banking records, but she never had the chance to see those records on April 5, 2019.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Akirah Johnson, 11, spends three days a week finding community and mentorship at a new program — Saving Our Sisters — that encourages positive decision-making for middle and high school girls in Cedar Rapids.

Editor’s Note: After video last summer captured the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, protests for social justice reverberated across the country, including in the Corridor. Local governments and school districts made promises about how they would respond to the calls to eliminate systematic racism.

Editor’s Note: After video last summer captured the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, protests for social justice reverberated across the country, including in the Corridor. Local governments and school districts made promises about how they would respond to the calls to eliminate systematic racism.

Editor’s Note: After video last summer captured the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, protests for social justice reverberated across the country, including in the Corridor. Local governments and school districts made promises about how they would respond to the calls to eliminate systematic racism.

Editor’s Note: After video last summer captured the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, protests for social justice reverberated across the country, including in the Corridor. Local governments and school districts made promises about how they would respond to the calls to eliminate systematic racism.

Although Eastern Iowa is sitting under a layer of snow ranging from 8 to 20 inches — well above normal — that doesn’t necessarily translate to flood risks.

One day after a House education committee advanced a bill to eliminate tenure at Iowa’s public universities, a Senate subcommittee did the same — questioning the authenticity of tenure review and linking the academic appointment with concerns of politicization across higher education.

Iowa added 840 COVID-19 cases and 22 new, confirmed deaths on Thursday.The new numbers bring the state’s total number of cases to 327,257 and 5,196 deaths as of 11 a.m., according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. The new cases come from 3,724 individual tests in the 24-hour period. Iowa’s seven-day average is 676.

A type of corn on its way to becoming obsolete is getting a lifeline as it could be a key to making the beef industry greener.Swiss-based Syngenta Group’s Enogen seeds is a brand of corn used for ethanol production that seemed to be on its way out as biofuels demand took a dive during the pandemic.