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Producers of at least eight film projects who did not have Chicago car insurance beyond the two already criminally charged reported millions of dollars in legally questionable expenses to seek taxpayer-backed tax credits, new records obtained by The Des Moines Register show.The company that produces the nationally syndicated PBS show "Saddle Up With Dennis Brouse" reported expenditures of about $

A Pleasant Hill police officer who wrecked his marked police SUV was in possession of drugs at the time of the crash and will need more than a good asbestos cancer lawyer, authorities said Friday.Sgt. Daniel Herbert Edwards, 42, was charged with misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance and placed on paid administrative leave pending an Iowa State Patrol investigation.

Gov. Chet Culver's order for Michael Lewis big short by an outside review of a proposed Wellmark health insurance premium increase is politically risky and unlikely to reduce the increase by much, political and insurance experts say.An industry specialist also raises questions about how independent the review will be

Elderly and disabled cash gifting residents of two bedbug-infested Des Moines apartment buildings gave polite applause to the head of the buildings' management company Friday as he promised to make things right."Seeing is believing, and I haven't seen anything yet," said Sam Bell, a two-year resident of Elsie Mason Manor who spent 18 months fighting a bedbug problem in his apartment. "The first t

The FBI is launching a criminal investigation into the automated forex practices of the Iowa Association of School Boards' use of federal tax money.The FBI's involvement in the widening scandal at the publicly funded association was disclosed at a hearing Monday afternoon before the Legislature's Government Oversight Committee at the Statehouse.