IOWA (IRN) – Another 12 people with COVID-19 have died, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported Thursday, bringing the statewide total to 231. The IDPH also reported that 655 additional people tested positive for COVID-19. Statewide, 11059 people have tested positive.

IOWA (IRN) – Governor Kim Reynolds is allowing more Iowa businesses to re-open to customers, including campgrounds, before this weekend. Dental offices, campgrounds, drive-in movies, tanning facilities and medical spas can re-open. The governor is also relaxing restrictions imposed in 22 counties. Those include the re-opening of shopping malls and other retail establishments, and gyms and fitness centers on appointment only basis.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (IRN) – Governor Kim Reynolds was at the White House Wednesday meeting with President Donald Trump. The conversation focused on Iowa’s response to the coronavirus and its reopening. Reynolds thanked Trump for “the incredible partnership that we’ve had throughout this pandemic.”

WATERLOO, IA (IRN) – Investigators on Wednesday arrested a long-haul trucker from Iowa who they say is linked by DNA evidence to the killings of three women whose bodies were dumped separately in Wyoming and Tennessee in the early 1990s. Police arrested Clark Perry Baldwin, 58, at his home in Waterloo, on murder charges filed in Wyoming and Tennessee in the violent deaths of the women, including two who were pregnant.