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The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled against a Dordt College nursing student in a COVID vaccine case. Dordt Student Andrew Perry was required to get the COVID vaccine before going into his clinical nursing rotation, but asked for a religious exemption and was denied. Perry sued claiming religious discrimination under the Iowa Civil Rights Act. […]

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services reports a baby was turned over to the state earlier this month. The baby girl was born October 16th and turned over under the Safe Haven Law that allows parents to give up an infant up to 90 days old if they feel they cannot care for […]

University of Northern Iowa President Mark Nook announced today that he will retire at the end of the current academic year. Nook is Holstein, Iowa native who became the Cedar Falls school’s 11th president in February of 2017. Nook has been working to improve the schools enrollment the last several years and said in September […]

The Iowa DNR’s Water Quality Bureau is adding testing for the bacteria that leads to blue-green algae blooms at county and city beaches. Spokesman Mark Moeller says they already do testing for E. coli bacteria at local beaches and this will add the blue-green algae test used at state beaches. “Is there a problem with […]

The state’s 17th annual free dental clinic is set for in the middle of next month. Dentist Lauren Patrick is the local committee chair as the Iowa Mission of Mercy returns to central Iowa at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines. “It hasn’t been here since 2022 and post pandemic. It looked a little different, […]

The Iowa State Patrol reports two serious accidents involving farm equipment in Audobon County Sunday. The Patrol says a semi traveling north on Highway 71 just before noon Sunday ran into the back of a 1986 John Deere 4450 tractor. The 16-year-old tractor driver, Tatum Christensen of Audubon was thrown from the tractor and died […]

The amount of corn harvested increased last week, but is still below 50%. The U.S.D.A. report says there was almost a whole week of suitable weather for the harvest and the amount of corn harvested went from 26% to percent 47%. That is still 20% behind the 5-year average for corn. The soybean harvest continues […]

The Italian-American Cultural Center of Iowa is now open in its new location at the historic Butler Mansion in Des Moines. The chair of the Center’s board, Jeff Lamberti, says the organization has been around for 45 years. “And for at least 25 of that, the goal or the dream was to try to find […]

Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate met with the media today to talk about the preparations for the General Election voting next Tuesday. “When you cast your ballot in the upcoming general election, it will be counted fairly, accurately, and securely. Iowans have expressed high confidence in our election results, and that is not by […]

The Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Depart has made another arrest Wednesday in a 1995 cold case murder. Deputies arrested 50-year-old Lindell Jackson of Waterloo and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Angela Buck. Buck’s body was found along a creek bank on August 11th and the autopsy determined she had been […]