Best Read Iowa Headlines
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#1 Satanic Temple Accuses Iowa Officials of Religious Discrimination
Jun 16 2025 // The Satanic Temple Iowa on Tuesday filed a complaint accusing state officials of discriminating against the group because of its members’ religion, having denied them access to the state Capitol building for a...
#2 Charter Bus Carrying Baseball Team Catches Fire in Iowa; No One Hurt
Aug 5 2024 // A charter bus caught fire early Friday as it was transporting a professional baseball team from Iowa to a game in a Chicago suburb. Members of the Sioux City Explorers made it off the bus safely, although several lost...
#3 Des Moines, Iowa Officials Issue Warning Over High Levels of Nitrates in Drinking Water
Jun 17 2025 // Local officials warned more than half a million Iowans in the state’s capital city and suburbs on Thursday that near-record level of pollutants in its rivers could make drinking water dangerous if immediate steps are...
#4 Iowa Amusement Park Settles Lawsuit Over 11-Year-Old’s Drowning in 2021
Jun 4 2025 // An Iowa amusement park’s former operator has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an 11-year-old boy who drowned on a water ride in 2021. A company that previously owned...
#5 Donald Trump Sues Iowa Newspaper Over Pre-Election Poll
Dec 19 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump sued the Des Moines Register and its pollster for “brazen election interference” in publishing a survey the weekend before the election that showed Democrat Kamala Harris with a...
#6 Scientists at Iowa Research Facility Race to Halt Spread of Bird Flu
Aug 26 2024 // AMES, Iowa (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an unassuming farm. Cows are scattered across fenced-in fields. A milking barn sits in the distance with a tractor parked alongside. But the people who work there are not...
#7 AM Best Downgrades Credit Rating of Iowa’s IMT Insurance
Sep 4 2024 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A-(Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of IMT Insurance Company and...
#8 Iowa Roofer Ordered to Cease Unlicensed Public Adjuster Services
Dec 16 2024 // An Iowa roofing company has agreed to a consent order to stop promoting itself as a public adjuster or providing any public adjuster services on its websites, social media pages and advertisements. Darren Reeves Roofing...
#9 Iowa and Iowa State Athletes Join Civil Lawsuit Over State Gambling Sting
Sep 17 2024 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ten more Iowa and Iowa State athletes and an Iowa basketball equipment manager ensnared in a 2023 state gambling sting joined a civil lawsuit Tuesday seeking unspecified monetary damages from the...
#10 Iowa Insurance Commissioner Appointed Receiver of Fraudulent Investment Companies
Jul 25 2024 // The Iowa Insurance Commissioner Doug Ommen was appointed the receiver of Beckstone Partners, LLC (Beckstone), DesFined, LLC (DesFined), East King Management, LLC, and The Corporate Leasing Company, LLC to wind down the...
#11 Contractor Agrees to Iowa Consent Order Regarding Unlicensed Public Adjusting
Sep 6 2024 // The Iowa Insurance Division entered into a consent order with a Midwest roofing contractor on Sept. 5 following a June cease and desist order against contractors acting as unlicensed public adjusters. IID alleges that...
#12 Black Man Sues Iowa Trucking Company for Alleged Hair Discrimination
Oct 2 2024 // A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the latest in a series of incidents across the country over an issue activists have...
#13 Iowa Couple Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Nov 13 2024 // An Iowa couple pleaded guilty to insurance fraud, forgery and theft, the Iowa Insurance Division announced. Des Moines – Lance Seastrand, age 52, and his wife, Staci Seastrand, age 56, of Davenport, were sentenced on...
#14 AM Best Removes Under Review Status of Iowa’s Pharmacists Mutual
Oct 30 2024 // AM Best has removed from under review with negative implications and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of “a-” (Excellent) of Pharmacists Mutual...
#15 Iowa Woman Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Injury Scam at Casino
Dec 10 2024 // An Iowa woman pled guilty to one count of presenting false information to an insurer over an alleged fraudulent injury at a casino, following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau. Tonya...
#16 Former Iowa Insurance Producer Sentenced for Wire Fraud and Money Laundering
Oct 21 2024 // William Berg, an insurance producer and former financial advisor from Waukee, Iowa, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty in federal court to wire fraud and money laundering charges. In...
#17 Iowa Sues Bitcoin Depot and CoinFlip Over Millions Lost to Crypto Scams
Mar 4 2025 // Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird last week announced lawsuits against Bitcoin Depot and CoinFlip, Iowa’s two largest cryptocurrency ATM operators, over their failures that allowed Iowans to transfer millions of...
#18 Iowa Insurance Division Joins $17M Settlement With Edward Jones
Jan 14 2025 // The Iowa Insurance Division, a member of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), announced last week it has joined a $17 million settlement with Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. (Edward Jones)...
#19 Two Iowa Men Charged With Insurance Fraud
Oct 10 2024 // Michael Vecchio, age 50, of Sioux Center was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud – Presenting False Information (Class D Felony) and Todd Meendering, age 61, of Boyden was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud...
#20 Iowa Man Who Falsified Rolex Watch Claim Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
Apr 2 2025 // An Iowa man was sentenced last week to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to Insurance Fraud (Class D Felony) and Fraudulent Practice (Class D Felony), following an investigation conducted by the Iowa Insurance...
