Iowa Supreme Court backs locker searches in schools
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that school officials may search student lockers when there is reasonable suspicion, balancing privacy rights with the need to maintain order. The decision upholds Muscatine High School's locker search that uncovered marijuana.
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Supreme Court frees Des Moines man from psychiatric custody
The Iowa Supreme Court ordered Loren Huss released from psychiatric confinement after nearly two decades, ruling he showed no signs of mental illness and the state could no longer justify detention. The court cited the legal standards guiding commitment and noted uncertainty about future risk.
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Iowa Supreme Court
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Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Confinement Case
The man was acquitted on murder by insanity, ordered confined to a mental institution where he has remained. He sought release claiming years of no mental illness, but prosecutors argued the calm stemmed from a controlled environment. The court noted prior horrifying behavior yet found no recent symptoms, refusing to extend confinement as a life without parole.
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Huss
DNA DNA requirement of prisoners upheld in Iowa ruling
The Iowa Supreme Court upheld a 1960s era law requiring certain prison inmates to give blood samples for a DNA database. Inmates claimed privacy violations and enhanced punishment. the court ruled the statute aims at public safety and sanctions for refusing do not alter the original sentence.
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DES Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Trial underway for mother charged in child endangerment
In Burlington Des Moines County, Donna Davis 22 faces felony child endangerment for the death of 6 month old Jaley Akers. The infant died March 4 from asphyxiation and her father Randy Akers is charged with a similar offense. Police found the child blue and unresponsive, both parents allegedly under the influence of methamphetamine.
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Des Moines
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Thieves steal mail payments from Des Moines area mailboxes
Authorities report a surge of thefts of utility, credit card and other payments from home mailboxes before carriers pick them up. Thieves rub off the recipient name with wet sponges and swap it with their own, then sign the back of the check. The crime is hard to trace, especially if cashed at a bank. Des Moines mail thefts have nearly doubled since 2000.
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Mike Ficcola
West Des Moines
Mail thefts surge in central Iowa alert spurs precautions
In central Iowa a rash of mail thefts has prompted warnings from Linda Jensen of the U S Postal Inspection Service in Des Moines. A Des Moines suburb case saw a woman alter a check to 375 dollars after a security camera photo failed to catch her. Diners and residents like Darlene Schmidt report taking precautions such as shredding mail and using post office hold services during vacations.
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Des Moines
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Fort Dodge
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State aid delay sinks Iowa biotech project to South Dakota
Trans Ova Genetics faces loss of part of its northwest Iowa biotech campus as Hematech expands in Sioux Falls. The company had sought 33 million dollars in state aid over several years to support purification and research sites, but delays prompted Hematech to relocate a pilot facility, boosting South Dakota plans and potentially shrinking Trans Ova’s expansion. Hematech opened a Sioux Falls lab to aid its own growth and announced a 15 million dollar expansion with half funded by a state package approved by Gov. Mike Rounds.
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Iowa
South Dakota
Trans Ova Genetics
Jan Schuiteman
Hematech
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Mike Rounds
Schuiteman
Fort Madison names new fire chief amid merger talks
Fort Madison votes to hire Michael Walker, a Lake Zurich Illinois lieutenant, as fire chief ending plans to merge the fire and police departments for now. The move follows retirement of Chief John Clatt and $346,000 in budget cuts.
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Michael Walker
Lake Zurich, I
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