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• $11-million park opens in Council Bluffs to fanfare & festivals
  After months of renovation and construction, a massive new city park is opening today along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs. Larry Foster, the city’s park and recreation director, says big crowds are expected at River’s Edge Park for the start of a three-day festival called Loessfest after the region’s rolling Loess Hills, along with [...]
  
  
• Lawmakers to review 1992 case of Dayton kidnapping suspect
  Key lawmakers say the waning hours of the 2013 Iowa legislative session didn’t provide enough time for a thorough review, but they will take a closer look at this week’s high-profile kidnapping case. A 42-year-old Stratford man who killed himself Monday is the suspect in the kidnapping of two girls from a bus stop in [...]
  
  
• Harkin announces Drake University is new home for his work papers (AUDIO)
  Iowa Senator Tom Harkin was at Drake University today to confirm a move many people had expected. “I’m proud to announce today that it’s my intention that Drake University in Des Moines will be the repository for my historical papers and materials when I leave the Senate at the end of 2014,” Harkin said to [...]
  
  
• Latham calls Senate immigration reform bill “a good start”
  Republican Congressman Tom Latham says the U.S. Senate is making a “good start” on an immigration reform plan, but Latham would like to see changes in the proposal. “I’m very pleased the Senate has finally had a debate in an open forum…five days in committee and they’re going to bring it to the floor and [...]
  
  
• ISU study finds more younger Iowans are buying farmland
  Iowa’s high land values are having an impact who owns farmland in the state. Iowa State University agricultural economist Mike Duffy is releasing the results from the 2012 Farmland Ownership Survey and says it appears the economy has been good to Iowa’s young people. Duffy says, “We’re seeing an increase in the land owned by [...]