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Kids Dead After Mom Tries to Skirt Train Crossing

Girls, 5 and 4, killed in collision with train

(Newser) - Tara Lewman drove up to a railroad crossing in Batavia, Iowa, on Monday afternoon, and stopped because the gates were down. To the east was a freight train parked on the tracks, and after an unknown length of time, she made the tragic decision to drive around the gates—and...

Massive Storm Belting Midwest Has Silver Lining

It will ease the drought in hard-hit parts of the country: Weather Underground

(Newser) - With winter storm warnings and advisories being issued from western New Mexico to southwestern Virginia, officials fear they could be facing the worst storm to hit the central US since a massive system covered much of the country two years ago , reports the USA Today . Already, 8 inches of snow...

Democrat Tom Harkin Retiring From Senate

Iowa senator won't seek re-election in 2014

(Newser) - Surprise news from the Senate today: Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin tells AP he will not run for re-election in 2014. Harkin, 73, pointed out that he would be 81 if he completed a sixth term. "It's just time," he says. Harkin has long been a champion of...

Iowa City's Police to Buy AR-15s With Own Money

Plan would see $55 deducted from paychecks for 1.5 years

(Newser) - Police in Marion, Iowa, a small city of 38,000 in the eastern end of the state, are planning to upgrade to AR-15s ... by buying the $2,000 weapon themselves, reports Fox News . Half of Marion's 50-strong police force intend to get the new weapon, and are willing to...

Bachmann Won't Pay Her Campaign Workers: Ex-Aide

Peter Waldron accuses her of stiffing 5 Iowa staffers

(Newser) - A former official in Michele Bachmann's campaign is accusing her of withholding thousands of dollars in pay to Iowa staffers who refuse to sign a non-disclosure agreement, Salon reports. Peter Waldron posted his allegations yesterday on Christian Newswire , saying Bachmann has more than $2 million left over from the...

Virginia AG: Let's 'Go to Jail' Over Contraception Mandate

Ken Cuccinelli slams ObamaCare on Iowa radio

(Newser) - Virginia's attorney general says it's time to take a stand against ObamaCare's contraception mandate—even if it means a little civil disobedience, Politico reports. Speaking on nationally syndicated radio in Iowa, Ken Cuccinelli, the state's likely Republican gubernatorial nominee, discussed his bishop's words on the...

Midwest Blizzard Kills 7
 Midwest Blizzard Kills 7 
Dec 21, 2012 6:10 AM CST

Midwest Blizzard Kills 7

1K flights canceled as storm begins to pass

(Newser) - Seven people died across four states as a winter storm continued to tear through the Midwest, dumping more than a foot of snow on sections of Iowa and Wisconsin. A 25-car pileup in Iowa killed two people, and nearly 100 accidents were reported in the state by late last night....

Blizzard Sweeps Over Midwest
 Blizzard Sweeps Over Midwest 
Dec 20, 2012 7:13 AM CST

Blizzard Sweeps Over Midwest

Up to foot of snow snarls traffic, disrupts flights

(Newser) - The Midwest has officially been hit by its first big winter storm of the year, spurring blizzard warnings in seven of the region's states. School has been canceled throughout Nebraska and Iowa, where drivers have been instructed to, well, not drive, reports the AP . Up to a foot of...

Bodies Found in Iowa Missing Cousins Case

Mom says remains belong to Elizabeth Collins, Lyric Cook-Morrissey

(Newser) - Hunters found a pair of bodies in the woods in northeast Iowa, and authorities are linking them to the case of two missing cousins , Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey. Police, who are waiting for information from state medical examiners, haven't officially identified the bodies, but they've notified the...

Iowa Governor: Let's Kill Our Straw Poll

It's a political relic, says GOP's Terry Branstad

(Newser) - The Iowa straw poll may be a political tradition for the GOP, but the state's own Republican governor thinks it should be retired. The Ames poll has "outlived its usefulness" except as a fundraiser for the party, Terry Branstad tells the Wall Street Journal . In more than 30...

An 11th-Hour Look at Swing States

What's happening in Ohio, Florida, and more

(Newser) - If you're tired of hearing the phrase "swing states," take heart: the end is near (or at least until the post-race analysis begins). Until then, an 11th-hour look at what's happening in several battleground states:
  • Ohio: Obama got heckled in Cincinnati yesterday by a man whose
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Obama Gains in Swing States
  Obama Gains in Swing States 
Poll Numbers
Nov 1, 2012 7:55 AM CDT

Obama Gains in Swing States

But he and Romney are dead even nationally

(Newser) - Hurricane Sandy has thrown polling into disarray—Gallup, for instance, has suspended its daily tracking poll—but some data is still trickling in for those desperate for presidential election score updates. Here's what we know today:
  • President Obama has expanded his lead in Michigan, and now leads 48% to
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Des Moines Register Endorses Romney

Likely cue to Midwest's mood; Obama gets NYT's nod

(Newser) - The Des Moines Register has meted out its presidential endorsement, and it's going with a Republican for the first time since Nixon. While acknowledging deep divisions both in the nation and its editorial board, the Register, which also endorsed Mitt Romney during the Republican primaries, looks with an eye...

Hank Williams Jr: Obama a Muslim, 'We Hate Him'

Country scion again rips into president

(Newser) - Hank Williams Jr. might have lost his Monday Night Football gig over, and even apologized for , comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler , but apparently he's still no fan of the current occupant of the White House. Seems the country music scion played Iowa on Friday night, and as Steve...

Drought-Ravaged Farmland Selling for More Than in 2011

Prices keep rising, thanks to federal subsidies, insurance payments

(Newser) - With a historically awful drought laying waste to fields across the country, you might think farmland prices would be down—but you'd be wrong. The average price of farmland in Iowa jumped 24% in the second quarter compared to last year, while in Illinois it rose 15%, according to...

Beer Tent Owner: Obama Visit Cost Me $25K

Iowa State Fair vendor not pleased with presidential appearance

(Newser) - President Obama stopped by the Iowa State Fair last night, prompting chants of "Four more years" and "Four more beers" at the Bud Tent, where he offered to buy a round—but the owner of said tent was less than pleased with the visit. It seems the tent...

Ryan Heckled at Iowa State Fair
 Ryan Heckled at Iowa State Fair 
Aug 14, 2012 1:20 AM CDT

Ryan Heckled at Iowa State Fair

Protesters attempt to storm soapbox

(Newser) - The Romney campaign chucked Paul Ryan into the deep end for his first solo campaign appearance yesterday. Hecklers greeted the vice-presidential candidate soon after he started speaking at the Iowa State Fair's famous soapbox, reports ABC . "Iowans and Wisconsinites, we like to be respectful of one another and...

In Steamy Midwest Streams, Scads of Fish Die Off

Hot, dry summer killing off thousands

(Newser) - Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as one of the hottest, driest summers in history dries up rivers and pushes water temps in some spots to nearly 100 degrees. About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon died in Iowa last week as the water temp hit 97, while Nebraska fishery...

Missing Iowa Girls Are Alive: Authorities

Elizabeth Collins, Lyric Cook-Morrissey weren't in Meyers Lake

(Newser) - Authorities who searched a lake looking for two missing Iowa girls said both of them are almost certainly alive, the AP reports. FBI spokeswoman Sandy Breault said officials "feel strongly" that cousins Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, have not been murdered. But she refused to divulge details,...

Iowa Girls' Case Now Considered 'Abduction'

Police find no trace of Elizabeth Collins, Lyric Cook-Morrissey in lake

(Newser) - Two young girls in Iowa remain missing , and police have formally reclassified the case as an abduction, reports the Des Moines Register . The move comes after police drained and searched the small lake where the bikes of Elizabeth Collins, 8, and Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, were found. Family members had pushed...

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