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The Sioux City Council on Monday unanimously approved a plan to buy 120 body cameras for its police department.

Advocates and family members of incarcerated Iowans are gathering signatures and coordinating an email campaign, urging state officials to approve compassionate releases for inmates who are especially vulnerable to the coronavirus.

Packages of seeds have been showing up on the doorsteps of houses across America. All 50 states warn against planting them because they may be invasive or otherwise harmful.

The Sioux City Police Department will bring forward a proposal to the city council on Monday requesting body cameras and other related equipment to enhance police accountability and public trust.

The Smithsonian Institute includes the African-American History and Culture museum, and the museum of the American Indian. But the country's largest minority group isn’t represented, yet. The House recently passed legislation to include a museum for the American Latino.

New state rules say Iowa school districts must conduct mostly in-person learning unless they meet certain virus-related benchmarks, including a county-wide coronavirus test positivity rate of 15 percent.

The University of Iowa football coach is apologizing and taking responsibility for a culture of racial bias in the program. Still, administrators say no coaching or personnel changes are planned.

A partnership between Iowa and Uganda is helping to ensure school children get a safe, nutritious meal and farmers have a better chance of making a profit on their grain harvest.

Iowa’s Latino commission members work for hours every month to give the governor insight into their community. At the end of each year, they list multiple proposals to solve problems Latinos in the state face. But they say their recommendations seem to fall through the cracks of government.

President Trump’s campaign and state and national Republican organizations are trying to intervene in a lawsuit over changes to Iowa’s absentee ballot procedures and are asking a judge to throw out the case.