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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Cedar Rapids officials say the city's police and fire departments have given up on a plan to impose an "accident cost-recovery fee" on drivers found to be at fault in traffic accidents. Full Story »

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - Authorities in Dubuque say they have arrested two Chicago men in what they say was a guns for cocaine sting. Full Story »

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A federal judge in Cedar Rapids has handed down a 21-month prison sentence to a man who embezzled more than $52,000 from a labor union and later won $30,000 in the Iowa State Lottery. Full Story »

ALLISON, Iowa (AP) - The attorney for a man accused of killing an Iowa high school football coach has waived his right to a speedy trial until February. Full Story »

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A panel of budget experts has trimmed more than $38 million from its projection of what the state will collect in taxes this year. Full Story »

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa's largest cable provider is having trouble providing e-mail service to customers after switching to a new system. Mediacom officials say a high volume of spam and other messages clogged the system during the migration to the new e-mail system this week. Full Story »

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Department of Public Health has announced all state residents will be eligible to receive an H1N1 flu vaccination next week. Full Story »

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Iowa City police are reminding drivers to scrape the snow and ice off their windows or face an $80 ticket for violating Iowa's "obstruction of view" law. Full Story »

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - A candidate hoping to become mayor of Waterloo has announced he will seek a re-count of votes from the Dec. 1 runoff election. City Councilman Steve Schmitt lost to former council member Buck Clark by 50 votes in the runoff. Full Story »

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa City mother is accused of leaving her 2-year-old daughter home alone with a bowl of potato chips left out for her to eat. Full Story »

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - The turbines on a northeast Iowa wind farm began generating power this week and will produce up to 200 megawatts of electricity. Full Story »

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Hy-Vee Inc. has named a 28-year veteran of the Iowa-based grocery store chain as its new president. The company on Thursday announced that stockholders ratified the selection of 47-year-old Randall Edeker, of Urbandale, to succeed Ric Jurgens as president. Full Story »

AMES, Iowa (AP) - A man suspected of abducting a 13-year-old Illinois girl has been arrested in Iowa. Ames police say Eric Smith, of Rock Falls, Ill., was taken into custody Thursday. The girl, Joy Haahr, also of Rock Falls, was found with Smith. Full Story »

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - This week's blizzard has delayed a hearing for a former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse on child labor violations. Sholom Rubashkin's attorneys want the charges dismissed. A hearing scheduled for Wednesday was canceled because of the storm. A new date was not set. Full Story »

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The City of Des Moines has a seat at the table at the International Climate Meeting in Copenhagen. Full Story »

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - The snow might be an annoyance for many people, but one eastern Iowa man is using it to make money for charity. Jeff Lenhart of McGregor is actually auctioning off some of the snow from his yard on Ebay. Full Story »

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - Council Bluffs police say they arrested a man who allegedly assaulted his wife when she refused to help him shovel snow. Full Story »

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A federal court jury has convicted a 78-year-old Cedar Rapids man on child pornography charges for allegedly using two preteen girls to make a pornographic video in 2001. Full Story »

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting three more swine flu deaths in the state. The department said Thursday that 1 of the deaths was of a child from eastern Iowa who had risk factors that increased the chance of complications from the H1N1 virus. Full Story »

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) - Agents with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have served a search warrant at the Muscatine offices of Grain Processing Corp. Full Story »

WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) - The city of Waterloo has adopted a new employee driving and accident policy after losing a grievance involving State Rep. Kerry Burt. Full Story »

MUSCATINE, Iowa (AP) - Sub-zero temperatures didn't stand in the way of 3 drivers who rescued a woman who flipped her sport utility vehicle into a Muscatine creek near U.S. Highway 61 Bypass. Full Story »

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Home sales in Iowa's largest city has seen a 71 percent jump from the same period last year. The Des Moines Area Association of Realtors says tax credits for first-time homebuyers helped push sales to 822 in November. Full Story »

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Board of Regents have approved a $100 tuition surcharge for public university students in an effort to make up budget cuts imposed by Gov. Chet Culver. Full Story »

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Iowa businesses are playing catch up after closing their doors due to the extreme winter storm that battered the state. Quaker Oats on Wednesday closed its cereal mill, the nation's largest, and Rockwell Collins closed its plant. Full Story »