DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are shadowing each other across eastern Iowa, eager to carve out an advantage in a race that’s deadlocked with just over a week until the state’s lead-off caucuses. The candidates planned events in the towns of Clinton and Davenport within hours of each other Saturday.

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says his supporters are so loyal they would stick with him even if he stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot somebody. Trump made the remark while addressing a rally Saturday at a Christian school, Dordt College, in Sioux Center. Several Republican contenders are in the state this weekend, with just nine days to go before Iowa’s caucuses open voting in the 2016 campaign.

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (AP) — A construction worker is recovering after falling from a southern Iowa bridge and being trapped under ice. The Des Moines Register reports that the 57-year-old man was injured while working on the Asa Marshall Bridge south of Knoxville, Iowa around 9 a.m. Friday.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa City nonprofit dedicated to rehabilitating injured and sick birds has had a busy first month. Cedar Rapids television station KCRG reports that volunteers with the Raptor Advocacy Rehabilitation and Education Group, which goes by RARE, has helped 20 birds, most of them raptors. The group formed in late November and operates in a donated space inside Iowa City’s Gentle Heart Pet Clinic.