Iowa News
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At the state high-school wrestling tournament in Denver last year, three upperclassmen cornered a 13-year-old boy on an empty school bus, bound him with duct tape and sodomized him with a pencil.
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Updated 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
As Congress considers scaling back or abolishing U.S. rules that mandate the use of renewable fuels, it has the full-throated support of the petroleum industry -- with one major exception.
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Updated 1 hour, 34 minutes ago
The Internal Revenue Service may be nearing an agreement to pay unionized employees $70 million in bonuses that aren’t legally required, said Republican Senator Charles Grassley.
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Hog futures surged to a two-year high on speculation that U.S. consumers bought more pork instead of beef for grilling during the Independence Day holiday on July 4 as supermarkets increased promotions.
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The San Antonio Spurs, one of two teams competing for the National Basketball Association championship this week, have nine international players. The league itself has 85, and the NBA finals are being broadcast to 215 counties in 47 languages.
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Governor Mike Pence won’t block Indiana’s Posey County from selling $1.3 billion in bonds to finance a fertilizer plant backed by a Pakistani company near the Illinois state line.
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Builders began work on more U.S. houses in May and permits for new single-family homes rose to a five-year high as residential real estate underpins an economy that’s generating little inflation.
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A U.S. board created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to ensure government surveillance doesn’t violate citizens’ rights is reviving this week in the same secrecy as the programs it will examine.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to spend about $38 million to buy domestic sugar in a bid to ease a glut that sent prices plunging this month to a four- year low.
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Hog futures rallied for the first time in three sessions on speculation that warmer weather will boost demand for U.S. pork as more consumers grill outdoors. Cattle prices were little changed.
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