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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad delivers remarks as Iowa Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds looks on at a kick-off event for their re-election campaign at Diamond V Mills on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in southwest Cedar Rapids.

"So the abuse of prescription drugs is a big problem in this state, and I don't want to deal with something that's going to exacerbate that," said Governor Branstad.

By: ABC9 News news@kcautv.com Near Denison, IA - The Crawford County Sheriff's Department is investigating the discovery of two bodies at the scene of a trailer fire.

By: ABC9 News news@kcautv.com Near Denison, IA - The Crawford County Sheriff's Department is investigating the discovery of two bodies at the scene of a trailer fire.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has won his epic battle with the state's Republican Party chairman, A.J. Spiker, who announced his resignation over the weekend after months of open warfare between the moderate GOP governor and Spiker's legions of Rand Paul supporters.

I was proud to vote recently in favor of Senate File 2322, which would establish a new state training school for girls in place of the now-closed Iowa Juvenile Home for Girls at Toledo.

A broader effort to discourage drivers from using hand-held electronic communication devices while operating their vehicles was approved by the Iowa Senate on Tuesday.

Gov. Terry Branstad said Monday he empathizes with people suffering from maladies who have come to the Statehouse seeking changes that would allow them access to medical marijuana, but he is not willing to sign off on the idea of legalizing the drug in Iowa for medicinal purposes.

Chris Thompson, 28, of Lowden, and Ryan Edwards, 31, of Cedar Rapids, spent part of Thursday afternoon testing flow rates on a pump typical in a waste water treatment plant as part of a hands-on lab at the electrical apprenticeship training center in Cedar Rapids.

Medical marijuana has been approved in several states across the country. There has even been talk in Iowa about the potential of passing similar legislation.

By CBS 4 Newsroom newsroom@cbs4qc.com A major renovation for downtown Davenport is about to get underway.

The federal gas tax, long used to help states pay for roads and bridges, hasn't been raised since Bill Clinton was president.

Des Moines Police are still searching for the suspect in an overnight stabbing. It happened at an apartment complex at 7200 SE 5th Street.

Gov. Terry Branstad joined state tourism officials Monday in touting Iowa as a vacation destination even though he admitted he'll be leaving later this week for a family getaway in Arizona.

In one of those "local" developments with national political import that it's easy to miss, Iowa Republican State Party Chairman A.J. Spiker resigned his position last last week, in the midst of a series of setbacks for his Paulite faction in local party elections that seemed certain to eventually reverse the coup it pulled off in 2012.

Gov. Terry Branstad wants to encourage more out-of-state tourists to visit Iowa.

South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard is tired of having Sioux City shake down South Dakotans as they pass through Iowa.

For the third year in a row, Iowa State University's Cyclone Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps Battalion has been named one of the nation's top eight battalions.

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland contends that a prominent Catholic priest played an "outsized role" in the state medical board's decision to ban use of a tele medicine system for providing abortion pills.

Thousands of Iowans are needlessly suffering because Iowa laws keep them from using medicine available in many other states.