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A year ago this week, Iowa High School Athletic Association leaders were sitting in a room inside Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines trying to decide what to do about the boys' state basketball finals.

PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo on Tuesday sent a military platoon to Kuwait to take part in the country’s first ever international peacekeeping mission.A ceremony was held at the army barracks in the capital, Pristina, in the presence of top leaders and western military attaches.

IOWA CITY — Days after a contentious meeting in which one chair resigned and another was ousted, a member of Iowa City’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has resigned.

DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday signed into law sweeping legislation that will significantly alter Iowa’s elections by reducing the number of days for early voting, restricting absentee voting and threatening county auditors with fines and jail time if they break the new requirements.

DES MOINES — After heated debate that stretched beyond the bill at hand to issues of tenure, incidents of censorship, political polarization on college campuses, and former President Donald Trump’s policies and practices — a free speech bill banning certain types of diversity training across Iowa’s public universities and K-12 schools passed the full Senate on Mo

DES MOINES — They may not have been the stuff of campaign flyers, but the Iowa House approved — mostly on bipartisan votes — more than 20 pieces of legislation Monday ranging from updating the probate code, reimbursement costs for transporting bodies for autopsies and non-ambulatory deer hunting.

DES MOINES — The Iowa Senate passed legislation Monday intended to strengthen “qualified immunity” for law enforcement officers who take forceful action in situations where state law is “not sufficiently clear” to understand their conduct might violate someone’s constitutional protections.

Restaurants, airplane manufacturers and concert venues all stand to benefit from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package the Senate approved Saturday.They are among the few industries that won targeted help in the massive spending bill.

MARION — The Marion Independent School board voted to postpone voting on whether or not to adopt the Maverick and still is considering using it as the district’s mascot after learning about its racist history in a 5-1 vote, with boa

CEDAR RAPIDS — A 30-year-old Cedar Rapids man was sentenced last week to 15 years in prison for choking a woman as she returned home from filing a previous assault report against him. Trial started March 1 for Antonio Lenn Buchanan. But after a jury was selected, he accepted a plea agreement from the prosecution.