JOHNSON COUNTY – Authorities have identified the teacher and student found dead in Lake Macbride in Johnson County Tuesday. KCRG-TV reports 10-year-old Ahmed Osman of Iowa City and 24-year-old Hannah Jorgensen of Tiffin were recovered from the Coralville Reservoir. The Iowa City Community School District reports both were on a 5th grade School of the Wild trip. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating as to how both were in the water.
DES MOINES – A judge dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump administration against the Des Moines Register and its former pollster. The Associated Press reports Iowa District Judge Scott J. Beattie rejected the president’s claim that the newspaper’s poll coverage through J. Ann Selzer in 2024 violated an Iowa consumer fraud law. Trump has filed several lawsuits against media organizations in his second term with claims of bias. He was joined in the lawsuit in Iowa by Representative Marianette Miller-Meeks and State Senator Brad Zaun.
DES MOINES – Fourteen people face federal charges in an alleged methamphetamine organization in central Iowa. KCCI-TV reports 11 of those were arrested Tuesday following search warrants in Marshalltown, Perry, and Des Moines. Charges included conspiracy to launder money for Liliana Hernandez Vazquez, Georgina Kasandra Hernandez Vazquez and Yureli Alondra Hernandez Vazquez, and the others involved were accused of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
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