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Crews are trying to beat floodwaters expected in an Iowa town on Tuesday by building up a secondary barrier to protect it from a massive hole in its main Missouri River levee.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will not participate in a key test of strength in the early voting state of Iowa in August, his campaign said on Thursday.

The swollen Missouri River is threatening to inundate a small southwest Iowa town where officials are piling massive sandbags on a faltering levee to contain floodwaters that could leave the community under several feet of water....

Stiff winds whipped up a gigantic blaze in the mountains of eastern Arizona on Monday, forcing the evacuation of a third resort town and casting a smoky haze over states as far away as Iowa....

First Read has confirmed the news that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) will officially launch his 2012 presidential bid on Monday in Iowa.

An 11-year-old boy lived through a tornado that demolished part of his house by hiding in a clothes dryer, according to reports.

CNN reports that Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann will form a presidential exploratory committee this summer, and the Minnesota Republican does not deny the report. 'It could be before then,' she says in Iowa, where she's courting local political activists.Minnesota Rep.

Hundreds turned out for a Sarah Palin book signing in Iowa, an event the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate insisted was not for political purposes....

The owner of an Iowa egg company says in testimony prepared for a House hearing that he was "horrified" to learn that his eggs may have sickened ...

Two Iowa farms that together recalled more than half a billion potentially tainted eggs this month share close ties, including suppliers of chickens ...