IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa will send up to 30 state police officers on a two-week deployment to Texas after Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds agreed to a request from GOP governors to help fight crime at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Thursday. A statement from the Iowa Department of Public Safety did not say…… MORE
Associated Press SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) – Authorities say over 150 people are still unaccounted for after part of a 12-story beachfront condo building collapsed in a town outside Miami. The collapse in the community of Surfside killed at least one person and trapped others in rubble and twisted metal. Rescuers pulled dozens of survivors from…… MORE
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas County DA has decided against seeking the death penalty for alleged serial killer Billy Chemirmir. The 48-year old former health care worker, long considered one of the worst serial killers ever in Texas, is charged with 18 murders in Dallas and Collin counties. About two years ago, District Attorney…… MORE
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) – Former Vice President Mike Pence is defending his role in certifying the results of the 2020 election and says he is proud of his own actions on Jan. 6. The comments Thursday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library were Pence’s strongest rebuttal to date of former President Donald Trump’s…… MORE
FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF)- The rare and rather unique, star-shaped fungus with the Latin name Chorioactis geaster received official designation last week when Governor Greg Abbott signed a resolution making it the State Mushroom of Texas. The mushroom is highly selective about where it grows, mostly attaching to decaying cedar elm stumps in the central and northern…… MORE