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Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Summit, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

DeSantis interrupted by three protesters at campaign stop days before Iowa caucuses

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Summerville, S.C., Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Trump plans to use a college football rivalry weekend to bask among his supporters in South Carolina, while potentially upstaging his Republican opponent Nikki Haley on her home turf. The front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination will be on hand Saturday as the University of South Carolina Gamecocks host the Tigers of Clemson University in the annual Palmetto Bowl. (AP Photo/Artie Walker Jr., File)

Donald Trump will look to upstage Clemson grad Nikki Haley at her alma mater’s football rivalry game

By Bill Barrow and Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump visits Café du Monde in New Orleans, July 25, 2023. Trump is expected to command the national political spotlight on Saturday, Sept. 9, when he attends Iowa’s biggest annual college football game. Trump will be at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames on Saturday, where Iowa State University will host the University of Iowa. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Trump, DeSantis and other 2024 GOP prospects vie for attention at Iowa-Iowa State football game

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Iowa State takes on Iowa in a sellout crowd of 61,500 people at Jack Trice Stadium during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, in Ames, Iowa. A digital platform where college athletes can anonymously alert their administrations to improper or illegal conduct by coaches, teammates or others is expanding to allow them to report gambling activity they’re aware of or witnessed to sports wagering integrity investigators. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney, File)

Fans try to put cloud of gambling investigation to the side as Iowa-Iowa State rivalry game arrives

By Eric Olson - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump plans to attend Saturday’s Iowa-Iowa State football game in leadoff 2024 GOP voting state

By Thomas Beaumont - Associated Press

UNLV head coach T.J. Otzelberger watches his team during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Utah State in the quarterfinals of the Mountain West Conference men's tournament Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Iowa State hires Otzelberger away from UNLV to replace Prohm

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

Sheriffs: Cattle found slain, dumped along Iowa gravel roads

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Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (D, D-45) speaks on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in opposition to HSB 9, a legislation proposing an amendment to the Iowa Constitution that upholds the right to keep and bear arms at the Iowa State Capitol, in Des Moines. (Olivia Sun/The Des Moines Register via AP)

Iowa lawmaker wears jeans to note GOP’s lack of mask mandate

By DAVID PITT - Associated Press

FILE - Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell reacts on the sideline during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Texas Tech in Ames, Iowa, in this Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, file photo. The Cyclones, who at No. 8 have their highest ranking ever in The Associated Press poll, play No. 12 Oklahoma on Saturday at AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Humble start leads to Campbell’s historic season at Iowa St

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

FILE - Iowa State wide receiver Landen Akers (82) carries the ball during an NCAA college football game against TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, in this Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, file photo. The Cyclones occupied the spot next to Kansas at the bottom of the Big 12 when the 23-year-old wide receiver from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, arrived in Ames. Now the Cyclones (7-2, 7-1) are alone in first place heading into Saturday's game against West Virginia (5-3, 4-3).(AP Photo/Brandon Wade, File)

Iowa St seniors cap steady climb with home finale vs WVU

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

Cedar Falls joins with other Iowa cities in requiring masks

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FILE - In this June 18, 2019 file photo Dravon Ames, holding microphone, speaks to Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, as his fiancee, Iesha Harper, right, holds 1-year-old daughter London, at a community meeting, in Phoenix. The Phoenix City Council will vote Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 on a settlement for the Black couple who had police officers point guns at them in front of their children last year after their young daughter took a doll from a store without their knowledge. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Phoenix OKs payout after police point guns over stolen doll

By TERRY TANG - Associated Press

Owner Claudio Gianello stands in the doorway of his temporarily closed Café Beaudelaire restaurant, Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in Ames, Iowa. Within a few weeks of Gov. Kim Reynolds opening bars and restaurants to customers again two major college cities in Iowa are seeing spikes in coronavirus cases among young adults between 19 and 25. In Ames the surge is serious enough to prompt several owners of restaurants and bars near the Iowa State University campus to close voluntarily just weeks after reopening. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Virus cases spike among young adults in Iowa college towns

By DAVID PITT - Associated Press

Credit union manager tells police about thefts from vault

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In this undated photo provided by the Story County, Iowa, Public Safety Group is Adolfo Martinez, who has been imprisoned for burning an LGBTQ flag that was flying at a church in central Iowa. Court records say Martinez of Ames was sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, to 15 years for the hate crime of arson and given a year for reckless use of explosives or fire and 30 days for harassment. (Story County, Iowa, Public Safety Group via AP)

Iowa man who tore down, burned LGBTQ flag is imprisoned

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In this Friday, May 17, 2019, file photo, LGBT refugees living in Kenya stand behind a rainbow flag as they protest against their treatment by authorities, outside an office of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR in Nairobi, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Adolfo Martinez, Iowa man who burned LGBTQ flag, sentenced to 16 years

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Iowa State forward Solomon Young, center, pulls down a rebound in front of Seton Hall center Ike Obiagu, right, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Matthew Putney)

Iowa State upends No. 16 Seton Hall 76-66

By LUKE MEREDITH - Associated Press

Man convicted of hate crime for tearing down LGBTQ flag

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Iowa State's Brock Purdy (15) passes the ball during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Texas Tech, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, in Lubbock, Texas. (Brad Tollefson/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)

Oklahoma St faces tough challenge Cyclones QB Brock Purdy

By JOHN TRANCHINA - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times at Otterbein University, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Warren, candidate with the answers, dodges tax hike question

By WILL WEISSERT and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press