AMES, IA (IRN) – Iowa State announced it will allow fans to return to football and basketball games as it resumes its previous COVID-19 attendance policies. Fans will be able to return to the university’s sports venues starting with Saturday’s football game against West Virginia and Sunday’s basketball games against South Carolina (women) and DePaul (men).

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Election officials certified a six vote lead by Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks over Democrat Rita Hart in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District race on Monday. It’s one of the closest Congressional contests in U.S. history. Hart may challenge the result in court.

LE MARS, IA (IRN) – A former northwest Iowa sheriff’s deputy has pleaded not guilty to stealing prescription drugs from the department’s evidence rooms and homes he was searching while on duty, and committing burglaries at five Plymouth County pharmacies. Forty-one-year-old Aaron Leusink, of Le Mars, is accused of taking prescription drugs from homes he was searching and pills that were evidence in other cases. Agents searching Leusink’s home found more than 1,600 prescription medication pills and several opened evidence bags.

MARSHALLTOWN, IA (IRN) – Marshalltown became the latest Central Iowa community to require face coverings. As of today, everyone in the city must wear a face covering inside any indoor public setting, and outdoors when 6 feet of social distance cannot be maintained.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – A promising new antibody treatment for coronavirus is now available in Iowa. MercyOne Des Moines doctors recently administered the hospital’s first doses of bamlanivimab, or “bam” infusion therapy, to COVID-19 patients. The experimental treatment is not yet FDA approved, but MercyOne doctors are among the first to use it following an emergency use authorization.