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01/16/2026

West Branch Fire Department battles truck fire on I80

Hunter 01/16/26 Three different fire departments were called to the scene of a truck on fire on Interstate 80 Wednesday morning. According to a post on the West Branch Fire Department’s page, they were dispatched to

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By Hawkeyesports.com IOWA CITY, Iowa — Chris Polizzi (pronounced pole-EATS-ee) has been chosen as the new special teams coordinator for the University of Iowa football program, Moon Family Head Football Coach Kirk Ferentz announced on Thursday. Polizzi has two decades of collegiate coaching experi...

01/16/2026

By Hawk Fanatic IOWA CITY, Iowa – While it’s only been two years since the Iowa women’s basketball team started 6-0 in Big Ten play, that team had legendary point guard Caitlin Clark leading the way and would go to finish as the NCAA runner-up for the second straight season. The current Iowa t...

01/16/2026

A fellow detainee says he witnessed Geraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at the ICE detention center in Texas on Jan. 3.

01/16/2026

Mississippi caught a break on an embezzlement scandal that funneled money to Brett Favre and others.

01/16/2026

Spacek becomes first former Heartlanders player to skate in NHL

Iowa Heartlanders news release Coralville, Iowa – Former Iowa Heartlanders defenseman David Spacek made his National Hockey League debut for the Minnesota Wild Thursday vs. Winnipeg, becoming the first former Heartlander to play in an NHL game. Spacek

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Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued Musk’s xAI, alleging that the company’s AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit deepfake images of her without her consent. https://cnn.it/4sHNhn9

01/16/2026

The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon the Civil Rights Act – a Jim Crow-era law passed to protect Black voters from disenfranchisement – a notable shift in how the administration is ...