DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Iowa’s unemployment rate remained at 2.4% in May, just where it’s been for nearly a year. Iowa Workforce Development reported Friday that the rate hasn’t budged since July 2018. Iowa’s rate is tied with New Hampshire for the third lowest in the U.S., behind Vermont and North Dakota.

LAKOTA, IA (IRN) – A worker at the site of a wind farm under construction in the north-central Iowa town of Lakota has died after being run over by a semitrailer. KWWL-TV reports the 51-year-old man was from Texas.

AMES, IA (IRN) – The Sigma Gamma Rho sorority at Iowa State University has been sanctioned for hazing, according to KCCI-TV. The group can continue operating, but could be suspended if it faces another violation.

HAMILTON COUNTY, IA (IRN) – The state of Iowa is still trying to collect a 29-year-old seatbelt ticket from a Minnesotan. WHO-TV reports Amy Rush is now in her 40s. In 1990 she was a runaway, hitching a ride with an older man through Hamilton County. The man got pulled over for speeding, and she got a ticket for not wearing a seat belt. Rush says she’s not paying up. She says the officer should have been concerned about her safety, not her seatbelt. Officials say she should expect the letters to keep coming. There’s no statute of limitations on the offense.

IOWA CITY, IA (IRN) – The University of Iowa has obtained the largest contract in the school’s history from NASA, totaling around $115 million. This contract will be used to help study the interactions between the Earth and Sun through magnetic fields. The study’s main goal is to show how the sun impacts space and the planets that surround it.