People convicted of several serious crimes would face a minimum 20-year prison sentence without parole under a bill advancing in the Iowa House. During a House subcommittee hearing, Mahaska County Attorney Andrew Ritland said he’s prosecuted people with more than 10 separate felony convictions, but each sentence was no more than a year or two, […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






