by Dar Danielson | Mar 30, 2012 | Crime & Courts, News
The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled a Pottawattamie County man who was convicted of murder when he was a teen can challenge his life sentence as cruel and unusual punishment. Jefferey Ragland was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 30, 2012 | News, Politics & Government
Iowa’s Republican governor and legislators from both parties struck an agreement that keeps Iowa Workforce Development operating through June 30th after a Supreme Court ruling tossed the state agency’s budget into chaos. But the battle lines are being...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Mar 30, 2012 | Fires/Accidents/Disasters, News
One person was killed, two hurt, in a single-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon in southwest Iowa. According to the Iowa State Patrol, the crash victims were in a 1995 Mercury Sable that was northbound on County Road P-33, about one-half mile north of the Adair/Union...
by Dar Danielson | Mar 30, 2012 | Military, News, Top Story
Some 300 Iowa Air National Guard soldiers of the 124th Fighter Squadron of the 132nd Fighter Wing based in Des Moines are currently on duty flying and supporting around-the-clock operations in Afghanistan. Major Trenton Twedt of Roland, commands the personnel on the...
by O. Kay Henderson | Mar 30, 2012 | News, Politics & Government
Legislators have crafted a bipartisan fix to the dilemma created by an Iowa Supreme Court ruling that nullified parts of the budget for the state Workforce Development agency. It was a side-effect of the court’s decision that Governor Branstad overstepped his...