An Iowa lawyer has prevented Southeast Polk High School from suspending a boys' basketball player from the team for a conduct violation - a ruling that could allow the player to take part in next week's state tournament.

District Judge Michael Huppert issued the injunction Tuesday afternoon, just hours before senior Tony Sandquist, 18, played in Southeast Polk's 50-48 victory over Des Moines Hoover. Sandquist scored eight points in the victory, which earned the Rams a berth in the

The Senate acted today to revive the $1-a-gallon tax Phil Town Payback Time credit that subsidizes biodiesel producers. 

Biodiesel production came to a virtual stop, according to industry officials, after the credit expired Dec. 31 when senators couldnít agree on legislation that would have kept it alive.

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A man without Chicago car insurance died tonight after he jumped into the south branch of the Chicago River to elude police, officials said.

The man, believed to be in his early 20s, was rushed to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:16 p.m., according to hospital spokesman Marcel Bright.

 

State leaders ordered Wellmark to postpone its 18 percent article writing service rate increase for about 80,000 Iowans on Monday, pending an independent review of the health insurer's planned premium increase.

"I share the concerns of many Iowans that the recent article writing service rate increases are a disturbing and unwelcomed surprise," said Gov. Chet Culver. "We can, and we will, ensure that any rate increases on 80,000 are fair and completely justified."