Trial today in filmmaker's tax credit case
Minnesota filmmaker Wendy Weiner Runge faces a Polk County District Court trial on first degree theft ongoing criminal conduct and three counts of first degree fraudulent practice. The case centers on inflated tax credit applications for the science fiction film The Scientist and related double billing practices by Polynation Pictures partners.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Minnesota
Iowa
Wendy Weiner Runge
St. Louis Park
Minn
Polk County
Weiner Runge
Iown
Matthias Saunders
Chase Brandau
Zachary LeBeau
Polynation Pictures
LeBeau
Brandau
Saunders
Iowa Film Office
Thomas Wheeler
Geoff Greenwood
Wheeler
Iowa House considers allowing school uniforms nationwide
House Education Committee approved a bill to let districts adopt dress codes requiring standard clothing, expanding beyond current rules that ban specific items. The measure faces Senate skepticism despite support from education groups and bipartisan House backing.
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Associated Press
ES Moines
Iowa House
Senate
House Education Committee
Waterloo
State Board of Education
Hiatt
Harding
Des Moines
Nancy Sebring
Carol Greta
Cecilia Guzman
Harding Middle School
Guzman
Thomas Ahart
Ahart
Urban Education Network of
Iowa
Iowa Association of School Boards
School Administrators of
House
Jeremy Taylor
Sioux City
Mtnt
Taylor
Herman Quirmbach
Ames
Senate Education Committee
Quirmbach
Guttenberg Mayor Gerald Block Dies at 79
Guttenberg mayor Gerald "Red" Block died this weekend at 79 at Mercy Medical Center Dubuque. Complications from a heart attack were cited as the cause. Block had served as mayor since 2003 and was a former Clayton County sheriff and Guttenberg police chief. He is survived by his wife Jerri and three stepchildren. Funeral is Wednesday at St. Mary's Church with burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Tuecke-Allyn Funeral Home handles arrangements.
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Gerald “Red” Block
Block
Mercy Medical Center
Dubuque
John Hess
Ralph Livingston
Hess
Clayton County
Jerri
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Mount Olivet
Tuecke-Allyn Funeral Home & Cremation Service
Bald eagle shot in eastern Iowa under investigation
Investigators from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are probing the Jan 8 discovery of a bald eagle shot in a Letts area field. The conservation officer reported death from a gunshot wound. penalties for killing a protected eagle include up to one year in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Letts
Iowa
Des Moines Register
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
DNR
Davenport man killed after hitting private property cable
Davenport resident John Herington, 46, died after a snowmobile strike with a cable marking private property Friday night. He died at a hospital. The area saw other snowmobile fatalities in Iowa recently, including a Spirit Lake crash and a missing rider on the Maquoketa River near Preston.
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Davenport
John Herington
Herington
Iowa
Spirit Lake
Maquoketa
Preston
Iowa lawmakers clash over school funding growth this week
The Iowa House and Senate focus on school funding with two competing plans. Republicans push zero percent allowable growth risking $215 million yearly, while Democrats back 2 percent growth costing about $65 million more. Rural districts warn zero percent hurts taxes and enrollment.
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Des Moines
Bureau
Iowa
House
Senate
Nate Willems
Lisbon
GOP
Willems
Mike Gronstal
Council Bluffs
Kraig Paulsen
Hiawatha
Paulsen
Chet Culver
Jack Kibbie
Kibbie
Senate Education Committee
Gronstal
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