From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom:
Iowa’s Attorney General announced the state will get more than $38 million following a multi-billion dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma. Attorney General Brenna Bird says Iowa will join 54 other states and territories in a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma. The settlement focused on Purdue and the Sackler family for worsening the opioid crisis across the country.
Iowa U.S. Senator Charles Grassley spoke out against former President Joe Biden yesterday, saying he was unfit to serve as President. Grassley’s Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee held the first of its kind Senate hearing on whether Biden was mentally fit to serve while in the White House. Grassley and Republicans on the panel accused Biden’s team, Democrats and the media of covering up the former president’s mental condition. They argue Biden’s team did this in an effort to prevent another term for President Donald Trump. Many Democrats on the panel walked out before the session began.
A Cedar Rapids pilot program is helping more than a dozen families find stable housing. But it’s had a slow start. The Landlord and Tenant Incentive Pilot Program launched last November. It connects landlords with affordable housing units to unsheltered people enrolled in Waypoint’s Rapid Re-housing program. The landlords get a financial incentive, and the tenants get monthly support from a case manager. A total of 8 landlords have signed leases with 14 households. Organizers say they have funds to serve up to 30 households.
An Iowa woman is now charged after police say she was burning an American flag while partially naked. Marion County deputies responded early Monday morning to a report of a woman lighting flags on fire. They found Brianna Laird undressed from the waist down with a flag tied around her head. Deputies say she hit one of them in the face when they tried to arrest her, and she kicked deputies when she was being put in the squad car. Laird is facing charges including 3rd degree arson, indecent exposure, and assault on an officer.
The State Historical Society of Iowa says it will close the Centennial Building in Iowa City by the end of the month. The state says renovations at the Historical Society’s Des Moines facilities duplicated its Iowa City’s functions. Starting in July, you’ll need an appointment to use the Centennial Building Research Center. That will last until the end of the year.
