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Iowa’s governor rejected two nominees for an open judgeship, saying a judge who chaired the nominating commission tainted the process by favoring one candidate and opposing others. Reynolds said in a letter to the nominating commission that it is only the second time in Iowa history that a governor has taken such a step.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, four employees alleged that they were sent unsolicited photos by the president of the Des Moines police officers’ union, including many of himself naked. The department let him retire with full benefits despite “overwhelming evidence” of his harassment, the lawsuit claims.

The lawsuit, filed this week in Polk County, seeks to make claimants eligible for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment aid they have been denied since Iowa dropped federal pandemic benefit programs June 12.

A new lawsuit contends that Reynolds' office is illegally delaying the release of public records related to the state's $26 million, no-bid coronavirus testing contract.

Iowa Argues Open-Records Law Is Not 'Well-Recognized' Policy

An influential hog dealer sanctioned twice for defrauding pork producers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars says it has fired employees responsible for its latest violations and paid restitution to affected sellers.

The DOC fired Dodson, a registered nurse at a maximum-security penitentiary in Fort Madison, after an investigation found dozens of inmates received shots containing up to six times the recommended dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

Iowa troopers are going to the border at 'no cost to Texas,’ agreements signed by the two states say.

Teen On Life Support After Deadly Iowa Water Ride Accident

Authorities are investigating the cause of an accident that killed a boy on the Raging River at Adventureland Park in Altoona — the second deadly incident on the ride in five years.