by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 29, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News, Politics & Government
An inmate who managed to escape from the state’s maximum security prison for about 10 hours last year died in a Wisconsin prison last week. Justin Kestner entered Iowa’s prison system about seven years ago after committing an armed robbery at a Sioux City...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Dec 29, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News, Outdoors
A federal court is siding with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and against environmental groups in a case that aimed to hasten water clean-up efforts. The Gulf Restoration Network and groups from Mississippi River watershed states argued the EPA needs to...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Dec 29, 2016 | Business, Health & Medicine, News, Politics & Government
State officials are now overseeing the operation of a northwest Iowa nursing home and it will be shut down by February 1. The Abbey in Le Mars has operated for 45 years, but federal officials will not longer make Medicare and Medicaid payments to the nursing home...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 29, 2016 | Business, News, Politics & Government
More than a thousand licensed plumbers in Iowa will get a “red tape” break on July 1, 2017. State Labor Commissioner Michael Mauro says current regulations require plumbers who work on construction projects to fill out licensing paperwork with both his...
by Matt Kelley | Dec 29, 2016 | Crime & Courts, News
UPDATE (4:45pm) — Police say they’ve arrested a man accused of pepper-spraying a police officer. Brandon Bordinat is facing charges of assault on a police officer with a weapon, interference with official acts resulting in injury, and interference with...