TOLEDO — With the midterm election less than a week away, a who’s who of local, state and federal Republican legislators and candidates for office converged at the Reinig Center in Toledo on Wednesday afternoon for a meet and greet event in support of the party’s gubernatorial ...
Iowa’s Medicaid Fraud Elimination Task Force is sending a draft of recommendations to Gov. Kim Reynolds that suggests the state more than double the fraud investigation and civil enforcement unit to hold fraudsters accountable. The task force, which was initiated by Reynolds in July, met ...
Both Democrat Rob Sand and Republican Zach Lahn said Tuesday in their final gubernatorial candidate debate that more work was needed to address mental healthcare and the impact of Medicaid privatization on healthcare providers, but the candidates offered different solutions to improving ...
(Editor’s note: This is the second story in a series on Monday night’s Marshalltown city council meeting and the ongoing debate over data center regulations in the community.) After a brief update and public hearing on the Public Housing Agency (PHA) Fiscal Year 2026 review with Housing ...
More and more Iowans are utilizing food banks across the state, and the same is true for the Emergency Food Box in Marshalltown. In 2023, the Emergency Food Box (EFB) was serving roughly 400 families per month. Now they are up to 500 families, or 1,900 people, according to Co-chairs Conny ...
Marshall County Courthouse Court Oct. 27 • Harley Dean Ferch made an initial appearance on a violation of parole charge. Mark Olberding is appointed as counsel. The parole revocation hearing will be scheduled by the Administrative Law Judge. Ferch is being held without bond. • Jose De Jesus Sanchez Soberanis made an initial appearance on a controlled substance violation charge. The public defender’s office is appointed as counsel. The preliminary hearing is set at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 6. A substance abuse evaluation is ordered with the results submitted to the court. • ...
