NORTH LIBERTY – Firefighters are on the scene of a fire at the Beaver Kreek Center in North Liberty, located at Zeller and Dubuque Streets.

Our crews on the scene report that flames are coming through the roof of the building.

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  DES MOINES – Iowa lawmakers are adjourning their 2012 session today without resolving differences over an effort to provide commercial property tax relief. The Iowa Senate passed a “sine die” adjournment resolution at 5:23 p.m. The Iowa House was expected to follow later. Lawmakers spent the session’s 122 day putting the finishing touches on [...]

  DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. — Saying it’s proving more difficult than anticipated to restore public confidence in its lean beef trimmings, Beef Products Inc. announced plans Monday to shutter plants in Iowa, Kansas and Texas and eliminate more than 600 jobs. Production at BPI’s South Sioux City factory, the only place still making the trimmings, [...]

  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The husband of the University of Iowa’s president will be paid about $54,000 this year to attend school fundraisers, although officials who supposedly approved the position have no recollection of it. Ken Mason was appointed in 2007 as both a “presidential fundraiser” and a lecturer in the biology department [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Emergency crews are on the scene of an accident in the eastbound lanes of Highway 30 in southwest Cedar Rapids.

The accident occurred Thursday at about 1:30 p.m. near the Highway 30 interchange with Interstate 380.

The crash involved a semi-trailer and several vehicles. An investigation is ongoing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Republican governors of Nebraska, Iowa and Michigan say the federal government cramps the states’ ability to create new jobs and stimulate regional economies. Nebraska’s Dave Heineman, Iowa’s Terry Branstad and Michigan’s Rick Snyder met Tuesday in Omaha with representatives of eight other states at the beginning of a two-day summit [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Some 220 members of the Iowa National Guard have returned home from Afghanistan. The 132nd Fighter Wing arrived in Des Moines late Saturday, after several flight delays. Tina Claus, of Omaha, Neb., told the Des Moines Register that the wait was worth it to see her husband, Lt. Col. Brian [...]

  ANKENY — U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for billions of additional dollars for community colleges during a town-hall meeting Thursday at the Des Moines Area Community College campus in suburban Ankeny. It was the last stop on a two-day tour of Wisconsin and Iowa for Duncan, who used the Ankeny stop to [...]

  MARION — Joe Fontenot is losing the game. The physical education teacher at Francis Marion Intermediate School is trying to demonstrate the J-Mat, a video game system in which players control an on-screen version of Jackie Chan by running and jumping in place on a thin plastic mat on the floor. He’s also explaining [...]