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IOWA CITY — An Iowa City woman faces kidnapping and assault charges after she was told she would have to move out of her home.

DES MOINES — Iowa senators voted 30-18 on Tuesday to approve legislation directing the state Department of Human Services to upgrade its system of verifying eligibility for public assistance programs.

DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed an education funding package that will pump $36.5 million more into Iowa’s K-12 school system.

CEDAR RAPIDS — The suspect wanted in connection with a fatal weekend stabbing died Tuesday from injuries suffered in the shooting with a police officer as he fled the scene, investigators said Tuesday night.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 92-7 Tuesday to confirm Tom Vilsack as Agriculture secretary, his second run at the Cabinet post. The former Iowa governor spent eight years leading the same department for former President Barack Obama’s entire administration.

CEDAR RAPIDS — A 19-year-old man was stabbed Monday night in southeast Cedar Rapids. Officers were called just after 6 p.m. to a residence in the 500 block of McKinley Street SE, where they found a 19-year-old with a stab wound to the chest, according to the Cedar Rapids Police Department, The man was rushed to a hospital for treatment.

DES MOINES — Changes to state unemployment benefits will be bad for Iowa workers and bad for Iowa, labor union members argued the morning after an Iowa House committee approved modifications Republicans said would improve the long-term viability of the unemployment trust fund.

CEDAR RAPIDS — A 21-year-old man who fatally shot a man and dumped his body in an alley in 2017 won’t face life in prison because he pleaded Tuesday to a lesser charge.

Iowa reported 621 new coronavirus cases and 26 new deaths due to the coronavirus Tuesday.The new numbers bring the state’s total of cases to 333,383 and deaths to 5,400, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. Iowa’s seven-day average for cases is 510.The 621 new cases come from 18,581 tests over the 24-hour period as of 11 a.m.

IOWA CITY — The FBI has identified an Iowa woman and her adult son as participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol after receiving a tip from a longtime family acquaintance, according to a court document unsealed Tuesday.