A Sioux City man serving life in prison has died. The Iowa Department of Corrections reports 63-year-old Mathew Scott Hallum Tuesday in hospice at the Iowa Medical Classification Center in Coralville. Hallum was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree sexual abuse, and assault inflicting serious injury in the rape and murder of 15-year-old Tanya Rubottom in […]

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






