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Fixing Flood Damaged Missouri and Platte River Levees Will Cost More Than 1 Billion dollars, 4:32

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates that repairs to flood-damaged levees and other infrastructure along the Platte and Missouri Rivers will cost far in excess of $1 billion.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that Corps spokesman Matt Rabe says the first 61 of 108 projects deemed eligible for federal funding will cost $1 billion. The Corps has received more than 150 project applications, and more are expected to roll in.

South Dakota-based Sanford Health and Iowa's UnityPoint Health have announced plans today to merge in an agreement that would create a sprawling health system in the Upper Great Plains and Midwest.  Unity Point has a hospital and clinic in Sioux City.

The providers said the merger would place the company among the top 15 largest nonprofit health systems nationwide. The new organization would employ more than 83,000 staff, 2,600 physicians and have more than $11 billion in revenue.

The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld policing practices that let officers charge drivers with crimes that may not be the reasons the drivers were stopped.

A divided 4-3 court today upheld so-called pretextual traffic stops that civil rights group say are racially discriminatory.

Chief Justice Mark Cady says Iowa law must prohibit traffic stops motivated by race or any other classification, even when probable cause for a traffic violation exists.  He says such stops are offensive to the values of the constitution and disproportionally affect blacks.

The Iowa Supreme Court has revived a long-running lawsuit that claims a state agent was fired in retaliation for his complaint about speeding by the governor's security detail.

The court today ruled that a judge erred in dismissing a whistleblower claim filed by former Division of Criminal Investigation special agent Larry Hedlund. The decision sends the 6-year-old case back to a lower court for a trial.

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