ALTOONA, IA (IRN) – The Iowa State Patrol says three people have died in a head-on crash near Altoona at around 12:48 a.m. Saturday morning. Troopers say a Volkswagen got onto the interstate in the wrong lane. It then hit a semi-truck head-on. Two adults and a baby inside the Volkswagen were killed in the crash. The truck driver was not seriously injured.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – After facing a workforce shortage for months, Iowa awarded an emergency $2.3 million contact-tracing contract to a company that has worked for the campaigns of President Donald Trump and Gov. Kim Reynolds and is owned by a Republican insider. The Iowa Department of Public Health selected Iowa City-based MCI for the contract out of 14 applicants, saying it submitted the best proposal and that political considerations did not play a role.

IOWA (IRN) – The Iowa Department of Public Health has reported 84 more COVID-19-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the most ever for a one day period since the pandemic began.

WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – An Iowa man has admitted that he threatened to find someone to assassinate U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York. During a hearing Friday in federal court, Kenneth Dean Brown, 56, of Waterloo pleaded guilty to transmitting a threatening communication.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Governor Kim Reynolds has ordered all flags in Iowa at half-staff from sunrise to sunset on Monday, December 7th, in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.