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DAVENPORT — A Georgia man was sentenced to two years in federal prison last week in connection with a scheme to obtain over $60,000 in fraudulent tax refunds from University of Iowa employees in 2015.

Iowa farmers could be fined for allowing weedkiller to drift to neighbors’ farms, orchards and gardens under bills passed by the Iowa House and Senate this week.

An Iowa jury on Wednesday acquitted a journalist who was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police while covering a protest in a case that critics have derided as an attack on press freedom and an abuse of prosecutorial discretion.

IOWA CITY — Black Iowans are getting and dying from cancer at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group in the state, according to a new 2021 Cancer in Iowa Report that found “structural racism” is largely to blame for the disparities.

More Americans are being affected during the pandemic by depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses, experts say, but many still face a stigma when discussing it.

IOWA CITY — The Iowa City Community School District this year could see a 48 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions since 2018, putting it years ahead of a goal of a 45 percent reduction by 2030.

Through both education and enforcement, state and federal law enforcement organizations plan a concerted effort to drop Iowa’s traffic fatalities below 300 a year — a level not seen in the state for nearly a century.

As temperatures started dropping last fall, local health experts were “extremely worried” that the coming flu season might only compound the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

CEDAR RAPIDS — The city is requesting $39.5 million in state funds to support “transformational development” projects downtown that, if approved, could give much-needed fuel to multimillion-dollar developments that have struggled to get off the ground.