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Officials say the closing of a South Sioux City bakery plant will cost the jobs of 81 people. Bimbo Bakeries is planning to close in October. Production will shift to other plants. Bimbo Bakeries is part of Mexico City-based Grupo Bimbo. The Democrat who came close to unseating Republican Congressman Steve King rallied supporters in Sioux City last night. Former minor league baseball player J.D. Scholten is taking another swing at flipping Iowa’s most conservative congressional district. He said

080519 532 A western Iowa Republican lawmaker says he's holding a campaign fundraiser featuring U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley at a shooting range despite calls for him to cancel the gun-centered event following weekend mass shootings in Texas and Ohio. State Rep. Steve Holt says his Sweet Freedom Celebration in Denison remains scheduled for tonight and Grassley's staff confirms he will attend and deliver a speech. Holt posted on his campaign Facebook page Sunday that "mental deviants have killed

080519 504 It looks like Republican Steve King may face off once again against Sioux City’s JD Sholten in the 4 th District Congressional race. The Sioux City Democrat from Sioux City says today he will make a second run for the seat. King.has held the seat for 17 years. Scholten says political analysts around the country said that nobody could get close to defeating King. But Scholten last year Scholten lost to King by only three percentage points, instead of the usual 20. Scholten says by

080519 432 J.D. Scholten says today he will make another run for the 4 th congressional seat held for 17 years by conservative Republican Rep. Steve King. The Sioux City native says he will seek the Democratic nomination Since winning the seat in 2002, King has been re-elected eight times, usually by margins of 20 to more than 30 percentage points until last November. And we proved everybody wrong by going out to all 39 counties, multiple times, most of them six times. And just going out,

080519 404 Democrat J.D. Scholten says today he will make a second run for the 4 th congressional seat. It’s been held for 17 years by conservative Republican Rep. Steve King. Scholten says political analysts around the country said that nobody could get close to defeating King. But Scholten says last year his campaign debunked that idea, losing to King by only three percentage points, instead of the usual 20. going out to all 39 counties, multiple times, most of them six times. Scholten got 25

The 2020 race for the 4 th district is on as 2018 Democratic Candidate JD Scholten of Sioux City officially announced today that he will run against the Republican candidate. Most people expect that to be incumbent Steve King, however, King is being challenged this year by three candidates. Scholten narrowly lost to King in 2018 by a little more than 10 thousand votes and he says he feels that he can beat King now. Scholten is running on the issues of medicare for all, an economy that can

080219 532 Iowa Highway 2 from Interstate-29 in southwest Iowa to the Missouri River is now reopened to traffic. The area was closed since late May because of flooding from the river and had been closed for all but eight days between mid-March and late May. The Iowa Department of Transportation said in a news release traffic will move in both directions using the westbound lanes of the highway. This limit will be in place until officials figure out a long term solution for Highway-2 to deal with

080219 504 Siouxland first responders have a new way to identify those with special needs. Sioux City Police Chief Rex Mueller announced The Special Response Static Sticker Program this morning. This notifies first responders that when they view one of these stickers when they are approaching a vehicle or a house, that they may be dealing with someone in the community that has these challenges. An individual with autism or special needs, an individual that is deaf, an individual that is

080219 432 The state board that oversees Iowa’s medical cannabis industry has declined to add any new conditions to the list of approved uses. The Medical Cannabidiol Board today denied petitions to approve anxiety and schizophrenia. A decision whether to approve post-traumatic stress disorder was delayed until November. MedPharm, the company that manufactures medical marijuana in Iowa is introducing a line of medical cannabis vapor products that will soon be available. MedPharm has a dispensary

080219 404 Highway travel has been restored between Interstate 29 and the Missouri River near Percival in southwest Iowa. The Iowa Transportation Department said yesterday that a contractor has laid down the temporary pavement in damaged areas of the westbound lanes of Iowa Highway 2. The two lanes will be divided for now into eastbound and westbound traffic. The state board that oversees Iowa’s medical cannabis industry won’t be adding any new conditions to the list of approved uses. The