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House GOP leaders Wednesday announced that they will move quickly to raise the government?s borrowing cap by attaching a wish list of GOP priorities like blocking ?Obamacare,? forcing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and setting the stage for reforming the loophole-cluttered tax code.They also, as expected, promised tea party lawmakers a chance to first use a routine temporary government funding bill to ...

Through a wall at his Rhode Island hotel, Aaron Alexis could hear them ? voices harassing him, wanting to harm him.He couldn?t sleep. He believed people were following him, using a microwave machine to send vibrations to his body. He changed hotels once, then again. But he called police and told them he couldn?t get away from the voices.On Aug. 7, police alerted officials at the Newport Naval Station about the ...

Fairfield Community School District Board of Director vice president, Jeremy Miller, left, was one of several board members and administrators shaking hands with outgoing board member Bob Waugh Monday. Waugh and Jeri Kunkle have left the school board as their terms expired this month.

Removal and installation of a precast concrete box culvert on Iowa 16 approximately 1.7 miles west of the junction with Iowa 98 in Van Buren County will require closing the roadway beginning Monday, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation?s Mount Pleasant construction office.Traffic will be detoured around the construction zone using Iowa 1, U.S. Highway 34 and Iowa 16.Reilly ...

SIOUX CITY (AP) ? A driver is lucky to be alive after his tanker truck was crushed in a collision with a train in northwest Iowa.Sioux City television station KTIV reports that the collision happened in Sioux City?s Leeds neighborhood around 7 p.m. Monday.Investigators say the train sounded its horn at the crossing, but that the tanker pulled into the train?s path. The impact caused the tanker to flip, crushing ...

RIVERSIDE (GTNS) ? No one was injured Friday evening when a round from an AK-47 style semiautomatic rifle penetrated a neighboring trailer from where the shot was fired in a trailer park at 3175 Highway 22, lot 2, in Riverside.Officials report the shot was fired during a family dispute. Michael Allen Fett, 30, of Riverside, faces charges of domestic abuse assault aggravated, an aggravated misdemeanor; intimidatio...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Police say a rare copper sculpture from the front yard of a Des Moines home last week has been found cut into pieces at an area scrap metal yard.The Des Moines Register reports that the abstract sculpture by the French artist Dominique Mercy had been valued at nearly $8,000. Police say is was stolen sometime early Friday. Police found the sculpture at a scrap yard on Monday, but it had already ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? A Rockwell City police officer killed during a standoff died from a gunshot wound to his chest, according to an autopsy released Monday.The autopsy by the Iowa State Medical Examiner?s Office found that officer Jamie Buenting, 37, was killed by the chest wound. It also certified the death as a homicide.Gerard Meyers, assistant director of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, said the ...

MOUNT PLEASANT (GTNS) ? Jack Seward, Washington County supervisor, and the rest of the board of directors for the Regional Utility Service Systems (RUSS) came to an agreement regarding Washington County paying RUSS back for the short-term loan taken out for the Richmond and Rubio projects at Wednesday?s meetingAccording to Seward, RUSS Executive Director Bruce Hudson had given the impression during an April ...

DAVENPORT (AP) ? Davenport police have charged a man with murder in a case that initially appeared to be a natural death.The Quad-City Times reports 37-year-old Stephen Allan Boeding, of Davenport, was charged with murder Friday. He was already in jail when charged.The case dates to June 6, when 48-year-old Kevin E. O?Connell was found dead in his Davenport apartment.Police were called to check on O?Connell, ...

Every weekend, Cindy Martinson treks from her home in Mason City, Iowa, about 160 miles roundtrip to Waseca, Minn.She visits the federal prison there, where her daughter Mandy Martinson, a first-time offender, is in the middle of 15-year prison sentence.Cindy Martinson knows her daughter made mistakes and broke the law. Mandy Martinson was at a low point in her life, her mother said, addicted to methamphetamine ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Trial has been set for a former Des Moines youth pastor accused of sexually abusing two teenage girls.Online court records indicate 27-year-old Ryan McKelvey?s trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 18.McKelvey is a former youth pastor at Heritage Assembly Church in Des Moines. Officers began investigating him after a girl and her parents reported in early August an alleged sexual assault by ...