A few Democrats running for president plan to visit Sioux City over the next couple of days.
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will appear at the Key Club on 4th Street tonight at 6:30.
She plans to discuss her vision for American.
Then tomorrow night California Senator Kamala Harris plans to hold a rally at the Anderson Dance Pavilion.
Harris is on a five-day river-to-river bus tour across the state of Iowa.
Also, on Thursday night former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper will attend a private event at the Truman Club in Sioux City.
The more than 20 Democratic challengers plan to attend the Iowa State Fair. The event kicks off tomorrow and runs through August 18th.
Former Texas Congrssman Beto O’Rourke told reporters in his hometown of El Paso today he will not be visiting the Iowa State Fair. He says he doesn’t know when he might return to the campaign trail after the mass shooting over the weekend.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he supports President Trump’s visit today to El Paso, Texas.
Some residents and elected leaders in El Paso object to the president’s visit, claiming Trump’s anti-immigrant comments likely sparked or contributed to the gunman’s actions.
Grassley told Radio Iowa he thinks it’s Grassley necessary for the leader of the country to express the sympathy of the American people to these violent crimes.”
Grassley who is a Republican says if the president didn’t go to Texas he would also be criticized.
Grassley attended a political fundraiser Monday in Crawford County at a gun range. The senator renewed his call for “red flag” laws that would make it harder for people deemed a threat to buy guns.
A former Winnebago Tribal Council member has been given probation for his role in the theft of funds from WinnaVegas Casino.
Travis Mallory was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Omaha to three years of probation.
He did enter a guilty plea in March to one count of theft of funds belonging to an Indian gaming establishment.
Mallory is one of nine former council members who were accused of a conspiracy to siphon more than $327,000 from the WinnaVegas Casino Resort in Sloan, Iowa.
Charges against two of them were dismissed.
A South Dakota prison inmate serving a life sentence for murdering a man 30 years ago has died.
The state Department of Corrections says 55-year-old Ronald Corder died Tuesday at a Sioux Falls hospital from a health condition.
Corder was serving a life sentence out of Clay County in southeastern South Dakota for first-degree murder.
Corder was convicted of killing 29-year-old Cliff Hirocke of Vermillion in 1988. Hirocke was found beaten to death at a game preserve 3 miles south of Vermillion.
DUI and drug arrests are up at this year's Sturgis motorcycle rally.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol's daily tally shows 72 drunken-driving arrests, up from 56 a year ago on the same date.
The patrol says 158 felony or misdemeanor drug arrests have been made, up from 115 last year.
The rally also saw its first fatality Monday afternoon when a 29-year-old man missed a curve south of Lead and was thrown from his cycle.
He wasn't wearing a helmet.
Eighteen people have been injured in accidents so far, down a fraction from last year.