RYAN J. FOLEY

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Iowa AD: Coach's chair slamming crossed the line

Iowa's athletic director says basketball coach Fran McCaffery went too far when he slammed a chair to the court during last week's blowout loss at Michigan State.

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Iowa defeats No. 13 Michigan 75-59

Tim Hardaway Jr. started off cold for No. 13 Michigan on Saturday, and never found a rhythm.

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Iowa defeats No. 13 Michigan 75-59

Senior guard Matt Gatens scored 19 points as Iowa used balanced offense and stout defense to beat No. 13 Michigan 75-59 on Saturday.

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Decisive Iowa votes arrive after midnight scramble

The votes that helped put Mitt Romney over the top in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses arrived only after a county Republican party chairwoman was woken up in a panic after midnight, local GOP officials said Tuesday.

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Lawyer vows to reveal mystery behind lotto jackpot

A New York lawyer representing a trust that turned in a lottery ticket hours before the one-year deadline for a $14.3 million jackpot said Wednesday he will come to Iowa to explain the mysterious circumstances, including who will get the money and why they waited to claim it.

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GOP voters focus on nation economy, not Iowa's

The "Great Recession" barely touched Iowa City.

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Occupy activists meet in Iowa, plan caucus events

Already they have interrupted Michele Bachmann and drawn a withering putdown from Newt Gingrich as "all noise, no thought."

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AP Enterprise: Nonprofits aiding Paul blur a line

The passionate support of an eclectic group of libertarians and young people has Ron Paul in contention to win the Iowa caucus. So has the work of two well-funded nonprofits that for the past three years have kept his aides employed, his volunteers organized and his ideas afloat.

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Occupy hecklers drown out Bachmann at Iowa diner

The Hamburg Inn in Iowa City has long been a popular stop for presidential candidates, but it probably won't be high on Rep. Michele Bachmann's list anymore.

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Iowa GOP worried by hacker threat to caucus vote

Taking seriously an apparent threat from a notorious collective of computer hackers, the Iowa Republican Party is boosting the security of the electronic systems it will use in two weeks to count the first votes of the 2012 presidential campaign.

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A journalism professor derides Iowa and faces fury

Only a few weeks before the first Republican presidential contest, some Iowans are on the attack like never before.

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Iowa principal gets 30 years for taping students

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Iowa elementary school principal to 30 years in prison for secretly videotaping dozens of young male students using the bathroom, calling his actions a shocking abuse of trust and among the worst crimes against children she'd seen.

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After outbreak, egg mogul is leaving the industry

A ruthless businessman who built one of the nation's largest egg production operations from scratch even as he racked up environmental and labor violations is getting out of the business in disgrace after one scandal was too much to overcome: a nationwide salmonella outbreak caused by his products.

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APNewsBreak: Iowa egg farm pays salmonella victims

Dozens of people sickened last year after eating salmonella-tainted eggs will receive compensation, including six-figure checks for two children, in the first wave of legal settlements with the Iowa egg producer blamed in the outbreak, attorneys in the case have told The Associated Press.

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Ex-postal worker: didn't know about theft charge

A former Iowa postal worker acknowledged Thursday that he was caught stealing customer rebate checks from the mail but said federal authorities never notified him that he had been indicted for doing so. The man's defense attorney said notice of the criminal charge may have been lost in the mail.

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Woman convicted of murder in Iowa neighbor's death

Two decades of what authorities describe as a Nebraska woman's fraudulent, bizarre and alarming behavior came to an end Monday when a jury rejected her claim of being a hero who resisted a home invasion and found her guilty of murdering a neighbor as part of a plot to frame her ex-husband.

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Top Cain aide has checkered past

He is the man with the mustache who takes a rebellious drag on a cigarette in the Herman Cain Internet ad gone viral.

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Cain aide featured in viral ad has checkered past

Meet the man with the mustache who takes a drag on a cigarette in the Herman Cain Internet ad gone viral.

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Ex-friend: Iowa murder suspect showed no emotion

Prosecutors called their star witness Friday in the murder trial of a woman who claims she killed an Iowa neighbor in self-defense: a former close friend who initially believed her account but came forward a decade later to provide key evidence against her.

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Long ties to Koch brothers key to Cain's campaign

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital. But Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity.

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Bachmann: GOP nominee must be true conservative

Eclipsed by Rick Perry, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann dismissed concerns on Monday about the strength of her campaign and told supporters that she alone has the best conservative credentials to be president.

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Iowa lawyers pore over a sex assault victim's life

Attorneys defending the University of Northern Iowa are heavily scrutinizing the life of a former student who was sexually assaulted by two football players in 2004 and is now accusing the school in a civil lawsuit of mistreating her and mismanaging its athletics department, court records show.

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U. of Iowa apologizes for Bachmann tweet

The University of Iowa is apologizing for a joke on a school Twitter feed that appeared to refer to Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann as a cougar.

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Testimony: Cain campaign concealed gay aide's role

Facing concerns from supporters in Iowa, Herman Cain's presidential campaign tried to conceal the role of a top adviser who had been ousted as leader of a gay pride group in Wisconsin amid a financial scandal, a former staffer has alleged in legal testimony.

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New trial ordered in 'Extreme Makeover' bus case

An Iowa appeals court on Thursday ordered a new trial in a bizarre legal dispute involving the sale of a luxury bus featured on ABC's popular show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

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