DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau) - Iowa will buy Minnesota’s nine most southern-most counties if an Iowa lawmaker has his way. State Senator Mike Bousselot, a Republican from Ankeny, says Iowa has lower taxes and regulations and would make for a better quality of life for the people and businesses in those nine counties.

Prosecutors say the evidence ties suspect Bryan Kohberger to the killings. However, his defense wants the evidence thrown out. Kohberger was arrested at his parents' home in the Pennsylvania Poconos in December of 2022, just over a month after the murders. Four students were found killed in their off-campus apartment.

The 59-year-old woman’s brother captured video of her striking a boy five times with an object resembling a cutting board, leaving bruises, police said.

It was a night of “tossing and turning” for an Iowa woman as she stayed awake thinking about her finances. But the late-night thoughts about money weren’t a worry for the 64-year-old from Evansdale. Instead, Diane Oltmann was thinking about her $300,000 lottery win, officials said in a Jan. 9 news release.

CS Bakersfield at Cal St.-Fullerton, 10 p.m. Idaho St. at Sacramento St., 10 p.m. Long Beach St. at CS Northridge, 10 p.m. Loyola Marymount at Pacific, 10 p.m. San Diego at Portland, 10 p.m. UC Irvine at UC Riverside, 10 p.m. UC Santa Barbara at UC San Diego, 10 p.m. Weber St. at Portland St., 10 p.m.

For daughters like mine and future generations, we need to celebrate and protect women and girls in sports," Britt said.

The Southeastern Conference can make a strong argument as the best league in college basketball with eight ranked teams and five in the top 10. The bevy of AP Top 25 teams leads to ranked SEC teams playing each other pretty much every week.

A recent study shows that your odds of getting a sexually transmitted infection are higher in some states than others.

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R- Ala. has introduced legislation with U.S. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. that would penalize healthcare practitioners who fail to provide care for an infant that is born-alive from an abortion attempt.

A wild week of upsets and court stormings led to a massive shakeup in the AP Top 25. One constant: Auburn. The Tigers were the unanimous pick at No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll released on Monday,

Notre Dame at Boston College, 7 p.m. Siena at Mount St. Mary's, 7 p.m. St. Francis (Pa.) at LIU Brooklyn, 7 p.m. St. Peter's at Merrimack, 7 p.m. UCLA at Rutgers, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at N. Kentucky, 6 p.m.

All Times EST GP W L OL SOL Pts GF GA Wheeling 36 26 8 2 0 54 131 88 Trois-Rivieres 35 24 7 4 0 52 129 88 Norfolk 37 22 12 3 0 47 149 116 Worcester 39 16 17 2 4 38 114 138 Reading 39 15 19 4 1 35