CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (July 11, 2019) — The Kansas City Regional Office of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal agency that administers the Medicare program, invites you to attend a 2½-day Medicare workshop.

If you are a caseworker, discharge planner, social worker, human resource, benefit specialist, or a trainer of these professions, or any advocate who needs to know about the A to Z’s of the Medicare program, then this workshop is for you.

In 2008, billionaire asset manager Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers negotiated a very favorable plea bargain in Florida, under which he served a mere 13 months in jail — in his own private wing, with 12 hours of daily "work release" — on a single charge of soliciting prostitution from a minor (the FBI had identified 40 alleged victims of sexual predation on his part).

SCOTT COUNTY (July 9, 2019) — On Thursday, July 11, at 9AM, the Scott County Sheriff's Office will hold a Swearing-In Ceremony in the Sheriff's Office Conference Room on the second floor of the Scott County Courthouse. Brent Kilburg, Alex Gries, Ethan Roling and Hope Hammitt have been hired as the newest deputy sheriffs for Scott County.

JOHNSTON, IOWA (July 9, 2019) — Coverage of Iowa girls' high school championships continues, as teams from across the state take to the field for the 2019 IGHSAU Iowa Farm Bureau Girls State Softball Championships. Coverage of each class title game will take place at Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge.