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 | Updated: 19:29, 26 February 2021 A Newark man who charged a vulnerable woman to resist nearly £20,000 for a £500 job has escaped being sent to jail. The woman had approached Tristan Price, who was working locally in the Retford area, to carry out some garden maintenance work for her. A fraud investigation was launched after the victim was charged £18,250 for taking down one tree, jet-washing the drive, patio and path, pruning three trees and emptying a garage. All of which should have only cost a few hundred pounds. Cash stock. The 22-year-old, of Tolney Lane, Newark, originally...

There is no 'easy button' to press to redraw congressional and legislative election districts in a year that could prove especially hard since the federal government doesn't promise to deliver the census data needed to start the process until a month after Iowa law says lawmakers must finish it.

contributed graphic A map of Iowa Senate districts for 2012 — 2022. Iowa’s redistricting plan faces a schedule snafu in 2021 and legislative leaders still “don’t have any idea” how it will be resolved, according to nonpartisan legislative staff. Iowa’s Constitution says the Legislature needs to finalize a legislative redistricting plan by Sept. 1. Then, Gov. Kim Reynolds has two weeks to review the plan and sign off by Sept. 15. If those deadlines aren’t met, the Iowa Supreme Court gets to redraw the district lines. But due to COVID-19 delays, the U.S. Census Bureau announced th...

State legislators have appointed four people to a temporary redistricting advisory commission. Author: Eva Andersen Updated: 10:58 PM CST February 17, 2021 DES MOINES, Iowa — Though the delay of U.S. census data has pushed back Iowa's redistricting process, both parties of the Iowa Legislature have now appointed four members to the temporary redistricting advisory commission. The Iowa Legislative Services Agency, a non-partisan agency, is tasked with drawing maps for the Iowa congressional and legislative districts once they receive the census data, which the...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) — Many people might not be excited to have two large ceramic dogs...