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Iowa gives Goetz contract extension

IOWA CITY (AP) — Iowa athletic director Beth Goetz has agreed to a contract extension that will keep her at the school through early 2032. The agreement comes after the Hawkeyes completed one of their most successful athletic seasons in school history during the 2025-26 academic ...

Thursday’s MLB capsules

CARDINALS 10, REDS 9 CINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati's Dane Myers dropped a fly ball with two outs in the ninth, opening the flood gates in a six-run inning to give St. Louis a win. The Reds held a 5-4 lead going into the ninth before things fell apart in the final inning. Masyn Winn and Jose Fermin scored on Myers' error, giving St. Louis a 6-5 lead. Alec Burleson's single drove in another run and a bases-loaded walk scored another to make it 8-5. Fermin came up for the second time in the inning and singled home two more runs to make it 10-5. But it was far from ...

Iowa ethanol backers share concerns with Rob Sand

NEVADA — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand did more listening than talking Tuesday during a meeting with members of Iowa’s ethanol industry at Lincolnway Energy in Nevada. Sand participated in a briefing and toured the biorefinery, which came online in 20o6, as part of his ...

Judge: DOJ claims are ‘hard to take seriously’ in Iowa deportation case

A judge has ordered the federal government to immediately release an immigrant held in an Iowa jail, saying it’s “hard to take seriously” the U.S. Department of Justice’s arguments in the case. It’s one of an increasing number of cases in which federal judges have expressed skepticism or outright disbelief in some of the claims made by U.S. Department of Justice lawyers, particularly in immigration cases. Court records show Nyamuoch Thomas Duoth, a citizen of South Sudan, was detained by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the ...

Cattle and conservation program expands through Des Moines watershed

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Tuesday an expansion of a popular cost-share conservation program that helps farmers convert cropland to pasture. The program has existed since 2016 in select southwestern Iowa counties where it has helped farmers convert more than 16,000 acres of less-productive cropland into pasture. Now, with funding from the state’s “farm to faucet” program, farmers in nearly 30 Iowa counties are eligible for the Cattle and Conservation Working Lands Program. Farmers sometimes have areas of land that aren’t suited to grow ...

Missouri court allows new trump-backed US House districts to be used

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has allowed new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump to be used in the November elections, rejecting a bid by to put the Republican-friendly districts to a statewide vote of the people. The ruling Wednesday by Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green is a victory for Republicans seeking to hold onto their slim majority in the U.S. House. But the case is likely to end up in the state Supreme Court. Missouri's new districts already were used in the August primaries. On that same day, Republican Secretary of State Denny ...