Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:28 PM EST
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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Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:08 PM EST
Tim Hardaway Jr. started off cold for No. 13 Michigan on Saturday, and never found a rhythm.
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Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:11 PM EST
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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Wed Jan 4, 2012 3:34 AM EST
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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Fri Dec 30, 2011 4:29 PM EST
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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Thu Dec 29, 2011 11:32 AM EST
The "Great Recession" barely touched Iowa City.
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Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:46 PM EST
Already they have interrupted Michele Bachmann and drawn a withering putdown from Newt Gingrich as "all noise, no thought."
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Sat Dec 24, 2011 4:08 AM EST
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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Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:09 PM EST
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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Mon Dec 19, 2011 3:13 AM EST
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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Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:08 AM EST
Only a few weeks before the first Republican presidential contest, some Iowans are on the attack like never before.
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Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:00 PM EST
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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Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:41 AM EST
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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Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:53 AM EST
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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Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:43 PM EST
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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Fri Nov 4, 2011 3:12 PM EDT
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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Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:21 AM EDT
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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Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:18 AM EDT
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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Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:09 AM EDT
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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Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:53 AM EDT
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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Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:48 PM EDT
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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Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:29 PM EDT
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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Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:52 PM EDT
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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Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:14 AM EDT
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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Thu Sep 8, 2011 5:53 PM EDT
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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