(AP) Gov. Martin O’Malley is set to visit Iowa this weekend to help Democratic candidates. O’Malley spokeswoman Lis Smith says he will be in the state Saturday and Sunday. This is the fourth trip the potential 2016 presidential candidate has ...

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Defense lawyers for imprisoned former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager Sholom Rubashkin violated a court rule by contacting jurors who convicted Rusbashkin of financial fraud, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Linda Reade said Des ...

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Welcome to the last Monday in September -- and the first Monday of fall. Here as some news items to get the week started.

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INDIANOLA, Iowa — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a 2016 presidential prospect, began forging an early — and therefore tricky — path into presidential proving ground Iowa on Sunday. Appearing at Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry, O’Malley dismissed the ...

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Welcome to Monday, the 30th anniversary of the debut of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. ...

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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad on Monday commuted the mandatory life sentences of 38 convicted killers who committed their crimes as juveniles, a move aimed at ensuring they will spend decades in prison rather than be released earlier because of a ...

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IOWA CITY, Iowa — A judge has ordered the operators of a popular pornographic website to pay $4 million for copyright infringement to an Iowa-based adult film company — a ruling that should serve as a deterrent to others who ...

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Gov. Martin O’Malley, the former mayor of Baltimore, mixed a little pigskin and politics Tuesday in advance of the Sunday’s playoff game between the Houston Texans and his hometown Ravens. Governors and mayors from the states and cities from which ...

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President of the Johns Hopkins University Ronald J. Daniels welcomed on Monday the new dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Paul B. Rothman. Rothman, who comes to Baltimore from the Carver College of Medicine in Iowa, said he wants to help Hopkins continue to be a national leader in health care.

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. senator says he has started an inquiry into Baltimore’s public housing agency. Sen. Charles Grassley on Thursday sent a letter requesting documents from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In the letter, the Iowa ...

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