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CLIVE, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman who told police she intentionally ran over a teenager because she believed the girl was Mexican has been charged with another hit-and-run crash that hurt a 12-year-old boy. Nicole Franklin, who also goes by the name Nicole Poole, was charged Monday by Des Moines police with attempted murder […]

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — David Hawkins is the kind of client that Iowa public defender Michael Adams would typically be appointed to represent, as he’s facing a burglary charge that could land him in prison for years. But Adams, who supervises the special defense unit of the State Public Defender’s Office, isn’t defending Hawkins. […]