The debut novel from a University of Iowa creative writing instructor has cracked the New York Times’ best-seller list and Kaveh Akbar will headline the Celebration of Literary Arts in the Des Moines metro today. The book “Martyr!” is fictional but follows the true-life 1988 American downing of an Iranian passenger jet that killed 290 […]
Iowa legislature votes to increase penalty for animal torture
The legislature has unanimously passed a bill that raises the penalty for animal torture to a felony, with a potential sentence
