CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced on July 10, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City. Kenneth Dawdy, 39, from Sioux City, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine on January 26, 2024. At the plea and sentencing hearings evidence showed that Dawdy participated in a conspiracy from January 2021 through June 2023 that distr  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 13 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: Johnnie A. Cannon, 38, from Sioux City, Iowa, formerly from Osceola, Arkansas, was sentenced on July 9, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City. On January 18, 2024, after a 3-day jury trial, Cannon was convicted, by jury verdict, of one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and three counts of distributing and aiding and abetting another in the distribu  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, July 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: Members of the public are invited to provide comment to the National Park Service on the John P. Parker House Special Resource Study via https://parkplanning.nps.gov/parkerhousesrs. Comments will be accepted online until September 8, 2024. NPS will host a public meeting about the study on July 25, 2024, at 5 p.m. ET at the Union Township Public Library Annex, 19 M  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57220) involving Cooper Nuclear Plant, Nebraska: * * * Facility: Cooper Region: 4 State: NE Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] GE-4 NRC Notified By: Brian Stander HQ OPS Officer: Eric Simpson Notification Date: 07/10/2024 Notification Time: 09:32 [ET] Event Date: 07/09/2024 Event Time: 04:55 [CDT] Last Update Date: 07/10/2024 Emergency Class: Non Emergency 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(3)(x  more

WASHINGTON, July 13 -- The White House issued the following news release: On Friday, July 12, 2024, the President signed into law: H.R. 1240, the "Winnebago Land Transfer Act of 2023," which takes certain land into trust for the benefit of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska; Thank you to Representatives Feenstra, Flood, Nunn, Davids, and Adrian Smith, and Senators Fischer, Grassley, Ernst, and Ricketts for their leadership; and * * * H.R. 4581, the "Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevent  more