Leaders of the southeast Iowa city of Ottumwa say they’ve been inundated with phone calls after a prayer to begin a city council meeting this week sparked a national outcry. Ottumwa resident and former city councilman Matt Dalbey opened the October 6th Ottumwa City Council meeting with an invocation addressing a “Dark Father” and ended […]

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





