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Audit: Iowa now meets federal nursing home inspection requirements

By ROBIN OPSAHL Iowa Capital Dispatch An audit released Monday shows the state has made “substantial improvements” in efforts to inspect nursing homes and now meets federal requirements, state Auditor Rob Sand said. In 2024, the state auditor’s office found certified nursing homes in Iowa were inspected by the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing on average every 17.1 months — four months beyond the federal mandate requiring homes to be inspected on a 12.9 month average. This requirement was set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the ...

Authorities seek motive in mass shooting at In-N-Out Burger

A driver charging his electric taxi and a former law enforcement officer who tried to intervene were among the seven people wounded in a mass shooting at an Idaho fast food restaurant that also left three people dead, according to friends and relatives of the two men. The attack Saturday at a ...

Record heat, dewpoints recorded across Iowa

By CAMI KOONS Iowa Capital Dispatch July ended with hot temperatures and record high dew point temperatures, according to a weekly weather report from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. While the temperatures were warm and parts of the state could use some rain as of ...

Washington state fires destroy hundreds of buildings

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Some residents returned to devastated neighborhoods in eastern Washington state to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend, covering yards in charred debris. In some cases, only chimneys were left standing. The ...

Fear the day when talented foreigners don’t want to move here

There are many ways to measure the health of a country. One way is growth of gross domestic product. Another is economic productivity. But there’s a less conventional measure worth watching: Do the world’s most talented and ambitious people want to immigrate here? Throughout most of ...

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ nets $355 million

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” made box office history in its first weekend in theaters. The Sony-released superhero movie became the second-biggest North American opening ever with an astonishing $355 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates ...