Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug users and referring them to treatment.

The missing 10-month-old boy has been found safe, according to the Scott County Sheriff’s Office.

A songwriter and music industry entrepreneur from Atlanta has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing his girlfriend in Iowa.

There are signs of Democratic fatigue in Iowa, a state viewed for decades as a true political battleground.

The drama surrounding a sudden vacancy in the job overseeing elections in one of Iowa’s most populous counties has voting experts concerned about what it could signal about the future of voting in America.

The hanging death of a 21-year-old Black man three years ago is still haunting a county in Mississippi.

Former Scott County Republican Party chairman Dave Millage at his home, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Bettendorf, Iowa. “These were friends I had made over the years in the Republican Party,” Millage, a longtime conservative activist in eastern Iowa, said in an Associated Press interview days later. But it turned a little personal.”Indeed, years of anti-abortion rights advocacy and devout party organizing didn't shield the typically understated Iowa Republican from retribution. Millage's adopted hometown of Bettendorf especially has a tradition of electing Republican state legislators and local officials. AdIn Maricopa County, Arizona, Rae Chornenky stepped down as GOP chair this month amid a power struggle with those in the state party claiming widespread election fraud.

Former Scott County Republican Party chairman Dave Millage at his home, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Bettendorf, Iowa. In swing states and GOP bastions, state and local Republican committees are stocked with Trump supporters who remain loyal. The Arizona state party Saturday reelected its controversial Trump loyalist chairwoman, Kelli Ward and censured Trump critics Cindy McCain, former Sen. Jeff Flake and even Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican Trump supporter who offended the party leadership by certifying Trump's loss in the state. In Pennsylvania, another state Trump lost, nearly 10,000 voters registered as Republicans had dropped their GOP affiliation as of Monday, according to state data.

FORT BLACKMORE, Va. – A fire official says emergency crews on Monday rescued 20 hikers who had been trapped on a popular southwest Virginia trail after heavy rains caused flash flooding. Duffield Fire Chief Roger Carter told WCYB all of the hikers were rescued on trails around the Devil’s Bathtub recreational area in Scott County before 10 a.m. Monday. Emergency crews from multiple departments, including swift-water rescue teams, responded Sunday evening after calls came in reporting the hikers were trapped. Carter says only minor injuries, such as mild hypothermia, were reported.