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Nursing homes have new federal rules for minimum staff levels, though the industry says chronic staffing shortages will make those numbers hard to meet. A new rule closing the “gun show loophole” for firearms sales goes into effect today. Iowa’s attorney general is among those suing to stop the change. And, a new state law clears the way for Lee County to have just one county courthouse. It has maintained two courthouses for the past 176 years.