SIOUX CITY, Iowa, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: * * * Investigations found 24 children, some just 13 years old, doing dangerous work in Iowa, Virginia * * * The Department of Labor has entered into a consent order and judgment, approved by a federal court in Iowa on May 6, 2024, with a Tennessee cleaning contractor that requires the employer to pay $649,304 in civil money penalties, hire a third-party to review and implement company policies to prev  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A man who possessed a firearm as a prohibited person and possessed methamphetamine with the intent to distribute pled guilty May 3, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City. Tirrell Harlan Hopkins, Jr., age 23, from Mason City, Iowa, was convicted of one count of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and one count of possession with intent to distribute a contr  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A man from Mason City, originally from Alabama, was sentenced May 6, 2024, to more than 18 years in federal prison. Tristan Walker, age 44, received the prison term after a January 2, 2024, guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Evidence in the case revealed between October 2022, and December 2022, Walker knowingly and intentionally conspired and t  more

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, May 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: A Nebraska man who planned to distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced on May 7, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City. Calvin Wright, 33, from Creighton, Nebraska, pled guilty on January 24, 2024, to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Wright was previously convicted of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in 2016 in Nebraska. Evi  more