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Cedar Rapids television station KCRG TV is considering a change its channel number from 9 to 32, according to a petition filed with the Federal Communications Commission.KCRG’s Operations Manager Kevin Schrader said the proposal doesn’t necessarily mean the station will proceed with the switch, though.

A nurse and correctional officer at the Anamosa State Penitentiary were killed Tuesday morning after an inmate assaulted several staff members, officials said.

DES MOINES — A top Statehouse Republican has suggested the state sue the Census Bureau to get data needed to complete legislative redistricting that the federal agency says won’t be available until late September.

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, is leading the charge in Congress in expressing outrage over what Republicans call a House Democratic “power grab” to overturn the results of the Iowa 2nd Congressional District election of Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

Ready for a road trip? If you’re searching for scenic highways and byways, the Lincoln Highway is both.Stretching from New York City to San Francisco, 460 miles of the nation’s first transcontinental automobile road passes through 13 counties and 43 communities in Iowa.

Any tour of Grant Wood-related sites in Iowa would be woefully incomplete without a visit to the Cherry Building in Cedar Rapids, where Wood, in 1925, had his first big commission as an artist.

LONDON — Oxford University and the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca may have only used partial data when the team announced the strong results from a U.S. trial of its coronavirus vaccine, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Tuesday in a highly unusual advisory.

DES MOINES — Legislation that would eliminate a requirement that Iowans obtain a permit to acquire or carry handguns and loosen other state restrictions is headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk following Senate passage Monday on a 30-17 party-line vote.

DES MOINES — With a food bank striving to keep up with surging demand during the pandemic as his backdrop, Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, announced Monday that federal benefits for people on SNAP — food stamps — will increase through September.

IOWA CITY — University of Iowa administrators should have known better when they “discriminated against religious student groups” several years ago amid uproar over one of their Christian organizations’ refusal to allow an openly gay member to become a leader, according to a federal appeals court decision Monday.