A man from a small town about 30 miles northeast of Cedar Rapids will spend 40 years in federal prison on sexual exploitation and child pornography charges. Prosecutors say 37-year-old Bryce Hans Plower of Prairieburg posed as a teenager and sent messages on Snapchat, Instagram and text messages asking minors to engage in sex acts, […]

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






