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Closing arguments are expected today and Friday in the criminal trial of former state Rep. Mike Veon and three former aides.

Joe Sestak, when asked if he had been offered a job in the Obama administration to not run against Arlen Specter, said yes. Something happened in July of 2009, Sestak said.

On MSNBC, Specter told Andrea Mitchelll this was a federal crime, if it happened.

“Like a brewery.” Those are the words two witnesses – one layperson and one medical professional – used to describe the smell of the man accused of driving drunk in the October 2008 car accident that killed state Sen. James J. Rhoades.

Her own children, like most Americans, knew nothing of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP, a program that had about 1,100 civilian female volunteers flying military aircraft stateside because of a desperate shortage of male pilots. Yonally had been one of the WASPs. Now, 65 years later, she was honored Wednesday at the Capitol with a Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’ highest award for distinguished achievements and contributions.

In March of 2006, a relatively unknown governor from Arkansas made his way to Iowa to deliver the keynote address to the Iowa Christian Alliance’s annual spring kickoff. The robust crowd that was assembled in the Des Moines Christian school lunch room got their first glimpse of Mike Huckabee, who would win the Iowa caucuses less than two years later.

State transportation officials stressed Tuesday there is no “plan B” for funding road and bridge improvements if federal officials fail to approve tolls on Interstate 80.