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TechnologyMay 30, 2024

Phone and internet outages plague central and eastern Iowa

Phone and internet outages were reported across Iowa after a water line break flooded a key telecommunications company building in downtown Des Moines

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TechnologyNov 7, 2022

Teen who killed rapist may face prison after leaving shelter

Law enforcement authorities are searching for an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who walked away from a women’s shelter

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Government and politicsMay 23, 2022

Iowa Auditor Sand says someone tried to steal his paychecks

Iowa Auditor Rob Sand says he was the target of an attempted email scam in which someone pretended to be him and unsuccessfully tried to move his paycheck deposit to a different bank account

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Social affairsMay 5, 2022

NASA climate research scientist wins World Food Prize

A NASA climate research scientist who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production systems must adapt to a changing climate was awarded the World Food Prize at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington

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TechnologyApr 7, 2022

Marshals arrest Iowa man accused of faking own death

Federal marshals have arrested an Iowa man in Washington state who has been on the run for six years after allegedly faking his own death to avoid a child pornography trial

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BusinessMar 16, 2022

Tired of waiting for driverless vehicles? Head to a farm

For years Americans have been told autonomous technology was improving and that driverless vehicles were just around the corner

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TechnologyDec 21, 2021

Branstad to head Iowa-based US-China business advisory firm

Terry Branstad, Iowa’s former governor and the former U.S. ambassador to China, has formed a company to consult with business leaders and investors on how to conduct business between the U.S. and China

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TechnologyDec 21, 2021

Federal watchdog: Trump's USDA overpaid corn farmers by $3B

A federal watchdog says the Trump administration overpaid corn farmers by about $3 billion in federal aid in 2019 and that farmers in the South were paid more for the same crops than elsewhere in the country

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General newsSep 2, 2021

Jan. 6 riot defendant returned to jail for using internet

A federal judge is ordering a prominent participant in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to return to jail, saying he violated his pretrial release conditions by accessing the internet to watch false conspiracies about the election