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Garner, Iowa- The prosecutors in the Henry Rayhons sexual abuse case have filed a motion seeking a change of venue. Rayhons, 78, House District 8 representative, was charged with third-degree sexual abuse for allegedly assaulting his wife, Donna Lou Rayhons, on May 23 while she was a resident of Concord Care Center in Garner. According to the criminal complaint, Rayhons was told by care center staff and his wife's family that she did not have the cognitive ability to give consent to any sexual activity. Donna Rayhons died Aug. 8 at a Hampton care center. Assistant Iowa Attorneys General Susan...

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DES MOINES — A report released to the public Friday by the state auditor finds a number of questionable purchases within the state’s alcoholic beverages division and a failure to follow the state bidding process under the agency’s previous administrator. The Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division regulates the distribution and sale of alcohol in the state. Some of the questionable purchases by the agency identified in the report include a camper, industrial strength dishwasher for the employee break room, bicycles, high-definition televisions and more than $23,000 of artwork. The audit report covers fiscal year 2008, when former administrator Lynn Walding oversaw...

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has found himself in the Republican Party's crosshairs, with the GOP trying hard this year to unseat the longtime Democratic stalwart.

When I write a screenplay, I start out with an agenda. I decide who my hero is first and who is the villain. Then I fashion scenes to build my dramatic case and make it believable. That is, I believe, exactly what occurred with regard to at least two reporters, Sheila MacVicar of CNN and Tom Miller of the Los Angeles Times, on Tuesday, April 16 in the Jenin refugee camp. I was there. I saw everything they saw, I heard everything they heard, I smelled everything they did not smell. And the truth is there was no smell of...