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DMPD, Broadlawns launch new services to address mental health calls

Iowa Public Radio: Starting this week, Broadlawns Medical Center will be adding to ways it assists the Des Moines Police Department with mental health services. Broadlawns has partnered with the DMPD for the past five years …

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Wells Fargo lays off another 107 workers in DM metro as mortgage market cools

Des Moines Register: Wells Fargo & Co. announced another round of layoffs in the Des Moines metro last week, doubling the number of workers at the banking giant who have lost jobs in central Iowa this …

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Cyberattack suspends Cedar Rapids summer school activities

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Cedar Rapids Gazette: A cyberattack discovered over the holiday weekend has caused the Cedar Rapids Community School District to suspend summer programming until July 11, the district said. Its announcement did not describe the …

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Adventureland negligence led to boy’s 2021 death on Raging River ride, lawsuit claims

Des Moines Register: The family of an 11-year-old Marion boy who died in a ride malfunction at Adventureland filed a lawsuit in the matter today, almost a year after the tragedy. Michael Jaramillo drowned when the …

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Marshalltown receives $4.4 million from FEMA for derecho cleanup

Marshalltown Times-Republican: U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, announced this week that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved $4.4 million in reimbursement for the city of Marshalltown in the wake of derecho cleanup efforts. The city …

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Iowa Consumer Protection Division sees solar power complaints shoot up

Radio Iowa: The consumer protection division of the Iowa attorney general’s office is seeing a dramatic upturn in complaints about solar energy companies in recent months. AG spokesman Lynn Hicks said people go into the endeavor …

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Grassley added to list of Americans banned from traveling to Russia

Des Moines Register: Russia today added Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley to a list of more than 900 prominent Americans banned from entering the country as the U.S. government continues to levy sanctions following Russia’s invasion …

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Iowa Workforce Development site outage expected to last through today

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa Workforce Development’s IowaWORKS.gov website, which developed an outage on Sunday, was expected to remain down through today, the state agency said in a news release Monday. The outage was not expected to …

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Des Moines unveils plans for a $40 million phosphorus recovery plant

Axios Des Moines: A $40 million phosphorus recovery facility will be constructed by the Des Moines Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation Authority under a plan presented to the city’s Urban Design Review Board last week. The WRA anticipates …

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Task force asks Polk supervisors to spend up to $16 million on water quality

Des Moines Register: Polk County supervisors are being asked to spend up to $16 million on several water-quality projects that County Administrator John Norris said could jump-start “transformational” changes for Central Iowa residents. A task force …