JASPER COUNTY, IA (IRN) – Election officials in Jasper County launched a second machine recount of absentee ballots Wednesday to finalize results in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District race. Democrat Rita Hart has cut Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ lead to 9 votes out of more than 394,400 cast, with recount boards in all but two of the district’s 24 counties reporting the results of their recounts.

AMES, IA (IRN) – The Ames Police Department is looking for a burglar who they say has broken into multiple apartments. Sometimes he steals things and assaults the women, and sometimes he just watches them sleep.

DES MOINES, Iowa – The state of Iowa saw another increase in initial and continuing unemployment claims last week. According to Iowa Workforce Development 9,458 initial claims were filed last week. That’s up more than 3,000 from the week before.

LINCOLN, NE (IRN) – The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska is creating the nation’s largest tribal national park on a forested bluff overlooking the Missouri River and a historic site of its people. The 444-acre park will allow the tribe to tell the story of the Ioway people and provide a rustic getaway where people can hike, camp and bird-watch.