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CEDAR RAPIDS — Joel Vaske worked a full-time job, helped on his family’s farm and coached football at Dyersville Beckman in the fall. He seemed focused on the next chapter of his life, playing town ball for the Dyersville Whitehawks and entering the “real world” after a college baseball career with stops at Kirkwood, Southeast Missouri State and...
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DES MOINES — The free speech rights of protesters on college campuses will be honored in Iowa, but “hate speech” and “destruction” will not be allowed, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday. Reynolds said if protests in Iowa cross those lines, “We will be ready. We’re not going to let it go.”
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CEDAR RAPIDS — The energy and passion seen from the Saint Xavier and Westcliff benches was another sign men’s volleyball may deserve more attention as the sport continues to grow. “I think the culture of men’s volleyball airs more toward kind of how we are,” Saint Xavier head coach Tom Ryan said.
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DES MOINES — Iowans will pay a flat 3.8 percent on their state income next year under a law Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Wednesday as she lauded the “transformation” of Iowa’s tax code that Republicans have ushered in over the last six years. The law, Senate File 2442, builds on a tax overhaul that Reynolds signed in 2022, which set Iowa’s tax rate ...
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DES MOINES — Cancer survivors were on hand Wednesday to watch Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds sign into law legislation that will require insurance companies to cover diagnostic exams designed to detect cancerous tumors in dense breast tissue, and biomarker testing that tests for cancer and other diseases. Reynolds signed both bills into law during a cer...
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IOWA CITY — Rain clouds gathered outside Coralville’s Xtream Arena Tuesday evening, threatening to complicate the covert operation inside, where community members and leaders wearing eye black and bandannas convened in assigned deployment teams. Using military-style code words like Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, and Foxtrot for team names — ...
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WNBA teams have started making moves to capitalize on the popularity of Caitlin Clark. Some are booking bigger venues for when Clark and the Indiana Fever come to town.
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OELWEIN — Local and state officials are investigating the unattended death of male in Oelwein. The Oelwein police received a report of a possible deceased person at 9:24 p.m. Monday, according to a news release from the police department. The body was located in a wooded area in the 10 block of Third Avenue NW in Oelwein.
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Vinton-Shellsburg’s success has come at a good time. The Vikings have won their last two tournaments with the boys’ golf championship season approaching quickly. A sign of their growth throughout the spring.
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The Iowa men’s basketball team will get a definite flavor of Los Angeles in the 2024-25 season. The Hawkeyes will play at UCLA and USC in those two schools’ first season as Big Ten Conference members. Presumably, it will be on the same trip. The league has announced opponents for the coming season, but the dates will come in a few months.
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