Four Iowa cities get federal drug-fighting funds

Four Iowa communities are learning today they’ll receive federal grants fordrug-fighting programs totalling more than 355-thousand dollars. IowaSenator Chuck Grassley is holding a news conference in Washington at 1:15p-m with Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey to announce the grants.Grassley says some drug-fighting money was getting lost in the red tape ofthe federal bureaucracy. He hopes this new action, under the Drug FreeCommunities Act, will turn that around.Des Moines is getting 93-thousand dollars, more than 64-thousand to MasonCity, and nearly 99-thousand to both Reinbeck and Marshalltown.