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Iowa Congressman Leonard Boswell Fights Off Burglar

Jul 18, 2011 10:18 AM CDT

Iowa Congressman Fights Off Burglar

After scuffle, grandson scares him off with shotgun

(Newser) - Apparently Leonard Boswell is the wrong guy to try to rob. An armed intruder broke into the US representative’s Iowa farmhouse this weekend, only to discover that Boswell and his family were home. Boswell, a 77-year-old army veteran, made a grab for the burglar’s gun, the Des Moines ...

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad Thinks Rick Perry Will Run for President in 2012

Iowa Governor
Thinks Rick Perry
Is Running

Jul 16, 2011 3:53 PM CDT

Iowa Governor Thinks Rick Perry Is Running

Texas governor drops yet another hint that he's in for 2012

(Newser) - In the for-what-it's-worth department: Iowa's governor says he's pretty sure that Rick Perry will join the 2012 race for president. "I get the definite impression he's very likely to run," Terry Branstad tells the AP . Perry called his fellow Republican governor yesterday, saying that...

Michele Bachmann Leads Mitt Romney in New Iowa Poll

Bachmann
Overtakes
Romney in
New Iowa Poll

Jul 11, 2011 7:55 AM CDT

Bachmann Overtakes Romney in New Iowa Poll

She leads 25% to his 21% in the state

(Newser) - Watch out, Mitt: Michele is a serious threat, at least in Iowa. In a new poll of likely caucus voters conducted by conservative news website the Iowa Republican , Bachmann is leading Romney 25% to 21% in the state. USA Today notes that in a Des Moines Register poll from about...

Iowa Teen Survives
Being Run Over by Train

Jul 5, 2011 9:29 AM CDT

Iowa Teen Survives Being Run Over by Train

17-year-old walked away with cuts and bruises

(Newser) - A 17-year-old boy somehow managed to suffer only cuts and bruises after being run over by a train in northwestern Iowa. The Altoona teen told city police he had been drinking at a music festival when he blacked out Sunday night. Two Iowa Interstate Railroad engineers told the police they...

Sarah Palin Visits Iowa: 'I'm Not Ready to Announce Anything'

Palin in Iowa:
'I'm Not Ready
to Announce
Anything'

Jun 28, 2011 8:04 PM CDT

Palin in Iowa: 'I'm Not Ready to Announce Anything'

She arrives in Pella to screen documentary

(Newser) - Bristol Palin may have teased Fox today with news that her mom had made up her mind about running for president, but the would-be candidate herself wasn't giving it up on her visit to Iowa today. "I'm not ready to announce anything," she told reporters in...

Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann Lead the GOP Field in Iowa

Romney, Bachmann
Leading Iowa Polls

Jun 26, 2011 5:47 AM CDT

Romney, Bachmann Leading Iowa Polls

Rest of the GOP field is far behind

(Newser) - Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann are in a dead heat in Iowa, with 23% and 22% respectively, says a new poll by the Des Moines Register . Herman Cain is third with 10%, and all others candidates are tracking in the single digits. While Romney is a well-known name in Iowa,...

Sarah Palin Will Go to Iowa for Debut of 'The Undefeated Documentary'

Palin Going
to Iowa
for Movie
Premiere

Jun 25, 2011 1:41 PM CDT

Palin Going to Iowa for Movie Premiere

She will be there Tuesday for documentary's debut

(Newser) - Fire up the bus: Sarah Palin will be in the audience when a glowing documentary debuts in Iowa next week. Palin and husband Todd say they will attend the premiere of The Undefeated on Tuesday in Pella, reports CNN . The visit comes on the same day President Obama will visit...

Missouri River Threatens
to Flood Iowa Town

Jun 6, 2011 2:04 PM CDT

Missouri River Threatens to Flood Iowa Town

Rising waters have already led to floods in other areas

(Newser) - The Midwest continues to struggle with flooding, as a small Iowa town evacuated today to escape the rising waters of the Missouri River. The Army Corps of Engineers is building an emergency levee to hold back the waters, which are expected to reach record levels in the next few weeks...

Iowa Hits Back at Huntsman

Jun 6, 2011 12:37 PM CDT

Iowa Hits Back at Huntsman

Secretary of State Matt Schultz responds in long statement

(Newser) - It didn't take long for Iowa to hit back at Jon Huntsman. In a long statement obtained by Politico , Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz, himself a Republican and a Mormon, mocks Huntsman's explanation for why he's skipping the state , noting that his "excuse" (he opposes...

Christie Takes
State Chopper to
Son's Baseball
Game...

Jun 1, 2011 9:07 AM CDT

Christie Takes State Chopper to Son's Baseball Game...

...so he can take it back and meet with Iowa GOP

(Newser) - Chris Christie, known for his aversion to government waste, used a New Jersey State Police helicopter yesterday afternoon to attend son Andrew's high school baseball game. Christie and first lady Mary Pat Christie were met at the adjacent football field, reports the Star-Ledger, and driven the remaining 100 yards...

And the
Least-Stressed
US State Is...

May 27, 2011 12:48 PM CDT

And the Least-Stressed US State Is...

Hawaii, Wyoming top list

(Newser) - America is about as stressed as it was last year, a recent poll finds: Some 39.4% of 352,840 respondents called themselves stressed “a lot of the day,” compared to 39.9% last year. The year before was just a little more relaxed, with 38.8% saying...

Tim Pawlenty
to Declare
2012 Bid

May 20, 2011 10:42 AM CDT

Tim Pawlenty to Declare 2012 Bid

Announcement to come Monday, aide says

(Newser) - Tim Pawlenty will make the obvious official on Monday: He is indeed running for president. An aide tells Politico that Pawlenty will announce his bid alongside his wife at a town hall in Des Moines. Pawlenty was the first candidate to launch an exploratory committee two months ago, making his...

Iowan to Gingrich:
'You're an Embarrassment'

May 17, 2011 8:13 AM CDT

Iowan to Gingrich: 'You're an Embarrassment'

Newt takes heat for undercutting Paul Ryan

(Newser) - Newt Gingrich is taking heat on the right, after calling Paul Ryan’s Medicare revamp “right-wing social engineering,” and saying he supported a “variation” on an individual health care mandate. Asked about Ryan’s voucher plan on Meet the Press , Gingrich replied, “I think that that...

States May Ban Undercover
Animal Abuse Videos

Apr 14, 2011 8:09 AM CDT

States May Ban Undercover Animal Abuse Videos

Iowa, Florida, Minnesota want to make it illegal to produce them

(Newser) - You've seen the videos: Animal rights advocates go undercover as farm workers and emerge with grainy footage of beaten cows , viciously killed turkeys , and abused pigs . And Iowa—the country's largest pork and eggs producer—wants to keep you from seeing them. Its legislature is considering a bill that would...

Tornado Ravages Iowa Town

Apr 10, 2011 3:20 PM CDT

Tornado Ravages Iowa Town

About 20% of Mapleton 'almost flat,' says mayor

(Newser) - A tornado at least a quarter of a mile wide struck Mapleton, Iowa, last night, damaging more than half of the 1200-person town. The mayor estimated about 20% of the town was "almost flat." The huge, centuries-old trees the town was named for had been pulled out of...

Oops: Pawlenty
Staffer Charged
With Public Intoxication

Apr 6, 2011 5:15 PM CDT

Oops: Pawlenty Staffer Charged With Public Intoxication

He tried to get into wrong Iowa home

(Newser) - Memo to political staffers of presidential wannabes: Try to remember the correct house where you're staying in Iowa, try not to vomit in strange backyards, and, above all, try to avoid having quotes like this show up about you in newspaper accounts: “His arm was in my back door,...

Michele
Bachmann
Wows 'Em
in Iowa

analysis

Mar 26, 2011 6:16 PM CDT

Michele Bachmann Wows 'Em in Iowa

Her populist message overshadows speeches by Gingrich, Barbour

(Newser) - Potential GOP candidates Newt Gingrich, Haley Barbour, and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain tested the waters at an Iowa forum today, but all took a back seat to Michele Bachmann, reports Politico . ("Steals the show" is how the headline puts it; other reports don't go quite that far,...

Iowa Plans Terror Drill With Immigrant-Hating Gunmen

Mar 25, 2011 9:06 AM CDT

Iowa Plans Terror Drill With Immigrant-Hating Gunmen

Anti-illegal immigration groups say exercise builds prejudice

(Newser) - Anti-illegal immigration groups are furious over an anti-terrorism exercise planned in Iowa that will pit Pottawattamie County's finest against a pair of teenage white supremacists. The drill, which is scheduled for tomorrow, is built around a fictional scenario in which an 18-year-old, angered by the influx of minorities—both citizens...

Divorce Soars in Rural America

Mar 24, 2011 8:29 AM CDT

Divorce Soars in Rural America

Families look very different amid shift in values

(Newser) - An Iowa county’s divorce rate today is almost seven times what it was in the 1970s, and it’s symptomatic of a wide-ranging trend: For the first time in history, rural Americans are as likely as urbanites to be divorced, the New York Times finds in a look at...

Loophole Gets Couple a House for Just One Payment

Facing foreclosure, they discover a 123-year-old law

(Newser) - Thanks to a loophole in Iowa law, Matt and Jamie Danielson now own their $278,000 home outright—for the cost of just one mortgage payment. The Danielsons fought foreclosure—and won—by citing a 123-year-old law that requires mortgages be signed by both spouses. A home-loan approval Matt Danielson...