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DMPS accountant questioned payments to Roberts-linked business in 2024

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By Tyler Jett Verified
| Des Moines Register Verified
DES MOINES PUBLIC SCHOOLS July 28, 2026, 5:57 a.m. CT Ten months before immigration officials arrested Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts, a district accountant questioned expenses paid to the Roberts’ romantic and business partner. On Nov. 1, 2024, according to emails recently obtained by the Des Moines Register, DMPS accounting manager Ben Lubkeman asked Lively Paradox CEO Nicole Price how many times she consulted for the district — and when those consultations occurred.
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Records, body cam video released in OWI arrest of Iowa judge

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By Tyler Jett Verified
| Yahoo Verified
An Iowa judge's blood alcohol content was between four and five times the legal limit when officers arrested her, a crime lab analyst concluded in a report released after she dropped an effort to have it withheld. Released Wednesday, July 15, the report said that six hours after Boone County sheriff's deputies arrested Judge Adria Kester in the median of U.S. 30 in November 2025, staff at a local hospital drew three vials of blood from her left arm.
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Flooded again, low-income apartments pose complex challenge I Exclusive

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By Tyler Jett Verified, Virginia Barreda Verified
| Des Moines Register Verified
A Des Moines apartment complex has flooded for the third time in 16 years, displacing low-income tenants. Previous flood mitigation efforts by the government failed to protect the Parkside East Apartments. A buyout is complicated by the complex's affordable housing status and the city's housing shortage. This time, tenants at Parkside East Apartments believed they were safe. Rainwater had rushed into the rent-capped Des Moines complex in 2010.
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