UNION COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) – Officials have recovered the body of 41-year-old Ryan Woosley from Creston who was found Wednesday afternoon in Three Mile Lake in Union County.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources said he was reported missing early Wednesday morning and was last known to be night fishing at the lake on Monday, but had not been heard from since.

Officials found his car in a boat ramp parking lot and an overturned boat in the lake.

They believe severe weather on Monday night may have contributed to the incident.

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Nonprofits in Cedar Rapids are discussing how cuts to SNAP and Medicaid could affect people in Iowa.

The Hawkeye Area Community Action Program, known as HACAP, helps distribute food to local food pantries in seven eastern Iowa counties.

The people who run it say cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition program called SNAP could result in as many as 10 million fewer meals for recipients in the state.

The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan government agency, says the “Big Beautiful Bill” would cut SNAP by $267 billion through 2034, the largest cut in the program’s history.

The bill would implement tighter work requirements for snap recipients who are parents with children.

HACAP says the cuts to SNAP would force more people to rely on already strained food pantries.

“We’re going to continue to provide. But we are going to also have a situation where we are going to have to ration and stretch out budgets thin and stretch our food inventory thin as well,” said Aron Becht, HACAP community food systems manager.

Several healthcare groups in Eastern Iowa also said work requirements and cuts to Medicaid could impact the majority of their patients.

The Congressional Budget Office says cuts to Medicaid would leave almost 11 million more people uninsured by 2034.

“52% of people who come to our clinic, we bill Medicaid. 67% in our crisis services bill Medicaid, and 99% of our specialty services bill Medicaid. So… it’s huge,” said Theresa Graham-Mineart, Abbe Health outpatient clinic services director.

The US Senate is currently considering the house bill and, and several conservative deficit hawks like Wisconsin’s Sen. Ron Johnson, Kentucky’s Rand Paul and Missouri’s Josh Hawley have expressed concerns about it.

Republicans cannot lose more than three Senators for the legislation to pass.

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Former Iowa Hawkeyes star edge defender Lukas Van Ness needs a huge season with the Green Bay Packers. Pro Football Focus recently highlighted one player from all 32 franchises facing a make-or-break season in 2025, and the Packers’ former first-round selection was an unfortunate, obvious choice.

In two seasons, Van Ness has totalled just seven sacks, equalling his output as a freshman at Iowa. For context, only Cincinnati’s Myles Murphy and Kansas City’s Felix Anudike-Uzomah have fewer sacks as first-round edge rushers from the 2023 NFL Draft, and both of them have played significantly fewer snaps than Van Ness, who has lined up for Green Bay’s defense 793 times.

Often times poor sack numbers can be overlooked if the quarterback pressures and hits are there, but that hasn’t been the case for the former Hawkeye either. According to PFF, Van Ness recorded 20 pressures, 13 hurries, and three hits on 247 pass rush snaps. While the snap count ranked 78th in the league at the position, the pressures, hurries, and hits ranked in the mid-to-low 80s. Nonetheless, Van Ness does carry an average pass rush grade from PFF from last year at 65.5.

His rushing grade is much worse, however. PFF graded his run defense at 45.2, which ranked 193rd out of 211 edge rushers.

Van Ness isn’t alone, as the Packers have struggled on the defensive front collectively, ranking 28th in PFF’s pass rushing grades without blitzing. No Packer had more than eight sacks last season as veteran Rashan Gary logged just 7.5.

Van Ness is entering his third year in the NFL, so the clock isn’t up for him just yet, but another lackluster year could have the Packers looking for a replacement in the 2026 NFL Draft. Still, the Packers don’t drop their young players in the deep end often. After all, Gary has become a stalwart on that defense, and he opened the first two seasons of his career with seven sacks as well before logging nine in Year 3. Green Bay is hoping to see similar results from Van Ness in 2025.