Iowa teen sentenced to life in prison for killing parents to ‘take charge of his life’
June 5, 2023 GMTCEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa teenager who said he killed his parents to “take charge of his life” was sentenced Monday to life in prison with a chance of parole in 50 years.
Ethan Orton pleaded guilty in February to two counts of first-degree murder in the October 2021 deaths of 42-year-old Casey Orton and 41-year-old Misty Scott Slade at the family's home in Cedar Rapids.
With new video, Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota edges closer to Republican presidential race
June 5, 2023 GMTNorth Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum took another step toward entering the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, posting a YouTube video on Monday touting his rise from a small town boy to a self-made software entrepreneur and a successful governor who has cut red tape and taxes.
Seegers triples in the 13th inning, Iowa tops North Carolina 6-5 at Terre Haute Regional
June 4, 2023 GMTTERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Michael Seegers ripped an RBI triple in the top of the 13th inning to lift second-seeded Iowa past North Carolina 6-5 in an elimination game at the Terre Haute Regional on Sunday.
Penn gives Ivy League an NCAA regional finalist for 2nd year in row; No. 2 Florida faces tall task
June 4, 2023 GMTPenn has given the Ivy League a team in an NCAA Tournament regional final for the second straight year and another surprise, Oral Roberts, extended its nation-best winning streak to 20 games Saturday night to move a step closer to the super regionals.
Indiana State rallies to top Iowa, 7-4 in Terre Haute Regional
June 4, 2023 GMTTERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Miguel Rivera and Grant Magill hit back-to-back two-run doubles in the eighth inning and top-seeded Indiana State rallied past Iowa 7-4 at the Terre Haute Regional on Saturday and is now a win away from a berth in super regionals.
Week after Iowa building collapse, Minnesota condo evacuated over stability concerns
June 3, 2023 GMTROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — Less than a week after an apartment building partially collapsed in Iowa, more than 140 people were evacuated from a condominium in Minnesota after a structural engineer expressed concerns about its stability.
Llewellyn nails down Iowa’s 5-4 regional win over North Carolina
June 3, 2023 GMTTERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Sam Hojnar gave Iowa the lead for good with a two-run single in the first inning, but it took a pair of strikeouts by reliever Luke Llewellyn to nail down the Hawkeyes' 5-4 victory over North Carolina on Friday night in the nightcap of the Terre Haute Regional.
‘Do I have regrets? ... Hell yeah,’ says Davenport mayor after partial collapse of Iowa building
June 2, 2023 GMTDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A structural engineer’s report issued last week indicated a wall of a century-old apartment building in Iowa was at imminent risk of crumbling, yet neither the owner nor city officials warned residents of the danger days before the building partially collapsed, leaving three people missing and feared dead.
Expansion still a focus for Big 12 after record $440M revenue for 10 current schools
June 2, 2023 GMTBig 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said expansion remains a focus for the conference, which wrapped up its spring meetings Friday with a record revenue distribution of $440 million to split among its 10 current schools.
Trump and DeSantis jab at each other on campaign trail in 1st dueling appearances as 2024 candidates
June 2, 2023 GMTBoth men are portraying themselves as the stronger fighter for conservative causes and their party’s best chance to block Biden from reelection next year.
Nevada GOP sues to hold presidential caucus over primary in 2024
June 2, 2023 GMTLAS VEGAS (AP) — The Nevada Republican Party is suing the state in an effort to maintain its party-run caucuses, even as Nevada shifts to a presidential primary system beginning in 2024.
A timeline of concerns raised about Iowa apartment building, months before it partially collapsed
June 1, 2023 GMTDAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — City documents released Wednesday show engineers and city officials visited a Davenport building nearly a dozen times in the months before it partially collapsed on Sunday.
Jets’ Breece Hall working way back after knee injury cut short promising rookie season
June 1, 2023 GMTFLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Breece Hall still razzes Garrett Wilson about what could've been.
In the New York Jets running back's mind, the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year award absolutely would have been his.
49ers QB Brock Purdy resumes throwing program
June 1, 2023 GMTSANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco quarterback Brock Purdy has officially resumed his throwing program as he tries to return from offseason elbow surgery in time for the season opener.
Purdy began throwing on the side this week for the first time since undergoing surgery on his throwing elbow on March 10.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The governors of Virginia, West Virginia and South Carolina on Wednesday joined a growing list of Republican leaders sending their state National Guard soldiers or other state law enforcement officers to the U.S.
Iowa judge orders continued probation for teen sex trafficking victim who killed her alleged abuser
May 31, 2023 GMTDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A teenage sex trafficking victim who fatally stabbed the man she accused of abusing her was resentenced Wednesday to probation, telling an Iowa judge that she now has a support system to help keep her on track.
The mayor of Davenport, Iowa, says five people remain unaccounted for including two people who could still be in the wreckage of a partly collapsed apartment building. The announcement followed criticism that the city is moving too quickly toward demolishing the building.
No fatalities reported in Iowa as officials plan to demolish partially collapsed building
May 30, 2023 GMTOne more person has been rescued and taken to a hospital after a building collapsed in Iowa. Davenport Fire Chief Michael Carlsten said at a news conference on Monday that it was unclear how many people, if any, were still missing after an apartment building in the eastern Iowa city collapsed.
Iowa governor signs bill loosening child labor laws
May 26, 2023 GMTDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teenagers could work more jobs and for longer hours under a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
The Republican governor signed the law after it was approved by the Legislature earlier in May with only Republican support.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa athletic director Gary Barta will retire on August 1 after 17 years at the university, the school announced Friday.
Barta, 59, is one of the longest tenured athletic directors in a Power Five conference.
Iowa law limits gender identity instruction, removes books depicting sex acts from school libraries
May 26, 2023 GMTDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov.
Iowa rolls past Indiana 9-4, reaches Big Ten semifinals
May 25, 2023 GMTOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Kyle Huckstorf ripped a go-ahead double, Sam Petersen added a three-run homer and No. 3 seed Iowa defeated second-seeded Indiana 9-4 on Thursday in the second round of the double-elimination Big Ten Tournament.
Cincinnati fires 2 members of its baseball staff as it investigates possible NCAA violations
May 25, 2023 GMTCINCINNATI (AP) — Cincinnati has fired two members of its baseball staff a week after the school opened an investigation into possible NCAA violations.
In statement released Wednesday, the school said assistant coach Kyle Sprague and director of operations Andy Nagel were relieved of their duties May 17.
NCAA survey shows 58% of 18- to 22-year-olds are wagering; athlete-only study is set for fall
May 24, 2023 GMTMore than half of the respondents to an NCAA-commissioned survey of 18- to 22-year-olds acknowledged placing sports wagers, with two-thirds of those who live on college campuses saying they engage in betting.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Footage from body cameras Des Moines police officers were wearing when they shot and killed a 16-year-old boy will not be made public, a state panel has ruled.
Frazier hits 1st career grand slam, Iowa beats Michigan 13-3
May 23, 2023 GMTOMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Brayden Frazier hit his first career grand slam in the fifth inning and Iowa routed Michigan 13-3 on Tuesday to begin the Big Ten Tournament.
Transgender health: Comparing model bills to real proposals
May 23, 2023 GMTMany of this year's statehouse proposals to restrict gender-affirming care for youths, as introduced or enacted, are identical or very similar to some model legislation, or ready-made bills suggested to lawmakers by interest groups, an Associated Press analysis has found.
Former naval police officer sentenced in federal court for threatening his ex-wife and her mother
May 22, 2023 GMTBOSTON (AP) — A former naval police officer at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in New Hampshire was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Boston for threatening his ex-wife and her mother in Iowa.
Luis De Leon, 30, of Middleton, Massachusetts, was ordered to serve 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
“The Late Americans,” by Brandon Taylor (Riverhead Books)
Brandon Taylor burst onto the literary scene three years ago, publishing two widely acclaimed books in quick succession. Critics marveled at the way he seemed to have pivoted so effortlessly from a budding career as a scientist to someone almost incapable of bad writing, as one admirer put it.
Many transgender health bills came from a handful of far-right interest groups, AP finds
May 20, 2023 GMTAaron and Lacey Jennen's roots in Arkansas run deep. They've spent their entire lives there, attended the flagship state university, and are raising a family. So they're heartbroken at the prospect of perhaps having to move to one of an ever-dwindling number of states where gender-affirming health care for their transgender teenage daughter, Sabrina, is not threatened.
DeSantis super PAC tackles tricky task of organizing support for him in Iowa without the candidate
May 20, 2023 GMTSIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — LaTomah Hauff stopped at the red-draped table on her way into Dean's Classic Car Museum to jot her contact information on a sign-up sheet to hear more about Ron DeSantis.
CARROLL, Iowa (AP) — Harrowing video of a driver speeding from Iowa police with an officer clinging to his hood and roof emerged this month during the motorist’s sentencing.
Dennis James Guider Jr., 29, of the Chicago area, was sentenced last week to up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony count of serious injury by vehicle.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The families of two teenagers shot to death in a Des Moines alternative high school have filed a lawsuit alleging the program and its founder were negligent in not keeping the premises safe.
Pence allies launching super PAC to back former vice president’s expected 2024 candidacy
May 16, 2023 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Allies of former Vice President Mike Pence are launching a new super PAC to support his expected candidacy for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump called into an event hosted by his former national security adviser Michael Flynn over the weekend, telling his ex-adviser, “We’re going to bring you back.”
DeSantis in Iowa warns of GOP ‘culture of losing’ as weather sidelines Trump’s event in the state
May 14, 2023 GMTSIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Decrying a Republican “culture of losing,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sought Saturday to weaken former President Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP as tornado warnings interrupted a collision of leading presidential prospects in battleground Iowa.
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions have generated enough excitement that the NFL chose them to kick off the season against the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.
TORONTO (AP) — The WNBA’s first game in Canada is a full-circle moment for Bridget Carleton.
The Chatham, Ontario, native will be suiting up for the Minnesota Lynx in a preseason game Saturday against the Chicago Sky at Scotiabank Arena.
Don Denkinger, umpire whose stellar career was overshadowed by blown call, dead at 86
May 13, 2023 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Don Denkinger, a major league umpire for three decades whose blown call in the 1985 World Series overshadowed a career of excellence, died Friday. He was 86.
Denkinger died at Cedar Valley Hospice in Waterloo, Iowa, Denise Hanson, one of his three daughters, said.
Supreme Court backs California law for more space for pigs. Producers predict pricier pork, bacon
May 12, 2023 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a California animal cruelty law that requires more space for breeding pigs, a ruling the pork industry says will lead to higher costs nationwide for pork chops and bacon.
Ramaswamy proposes raising voting age to 25, unless people serve in military or pass a test
May 12, 2023 GMTCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy on Thursday voiced support for changing the overall U.S.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A California peace activist who has worked to remove land mines from war-torn regions and replace them with grape vines, fruit trees and vegetables was named the 2023 World Food Prize laureate Thursday at a ceremony in Washington.
As legalized gambling becomes pervasive, NCAA rules against it remain strict with tough penalties
May 10, 2023 GMTMore than 40 athletes from Iowa and Iowa State could be facing discipline from both law enforcement and the NCAA for impermissible online wagering.
Chicago man sentenced to up to 92 years in prison for shooting Iowa deputy during robbery
May 10, 2023 GMTCEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A Chicago man who was convicted of shooting and seriously wounding an Iowa sheriff's deputy during a convenience store robbery in 2021 has been sentenced to up to 92 years in prison.
Parents accused of helping son flee country before trial
May 10, 2023 GMTIOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The parents of an Iowa man who fled to Jordan before his attempted murder trial have been arrested after prosecutors accused them of helping their son escape the country.
Ali Younes, 19, had been set to go on trial next week for allegedly attacking a woman on the University of Iowa campus last April and stealing a pair of earrings from her that were valued at $20,000.
Cedar Rapids man convicted of Capitol riot charges
May 9, 2023 GMTCEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A federal jury convicted a Cedar Rapids man on Tuesday of seven charges related to the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.
Gambling’s place in campus culture portends scandals to come
May 9, 2023 GMTWith the proliferation of legal wagering in the United States the past five years, it wasn't a question of if but when a college sports gambling scandal would become public.
Iowa, Iowa St announce investigations into athlete gambling
May 9, 2023 GMTThe University of Iowa announced Monday that 26 athletes across five sports are suspected of wagering on sports in violation of NCAA rules, and more than 100 people have been linked to an investigation.
Pro-DeSantis super PAC ramps up hiring into Super Tuesday
May 9, 2023 GMTDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The super PAC promoting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to have dozens of staff in place in the first 18 states on the Republican presidential primary calendar in the coming weeks, a move indicating that his expected 2024 announcement is drawing closer.
Tips surge after nurse practitioner charged with sex crimes
May 6, 2023 GMTAMES, Iowa (AP) — More than 70 tips have poured in after an Iowa nurse practitioner who is accused of photographing a teen's genitals during an exam was arrested on sex crime charges, police say.
Several districts and one university also have issued alerts that Carl Markley, 44, performed school physicals for their students, although none of the charges against him allege that crimes occurred during those exams.
Hockey helped Packers’ Van Ness develop into 1st-round pick
May 5, 2023 GMTGREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers hope first-round pick Lukas Van Ness terrorizes quarterbacks the same way he used to intimidate opponents on the hockey rink.
Van Ness gravitated to hockey as a child growing up in the Chicago suburb of Barrington, Illinois.
Family dog fatally attacks 9-month-old, injures grandmother
May 5, 2023 GMTWATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — A dog has fatally attacked a 9-month-old baby and seriously injured the child's grandmother at an Iowa home, authorities say.
Waterloo police Capt. Jason Feaker said that the 49-year-old grandmother was watching the baby at the child's home Thursday morning when the family pet, a neutered boxer/hound mix, attacked.