Police will not be involved in enforcing school rules or discipline, among other recommendations, which school officials hope will reduce the number of arrests and charges filed of all students by 50 percent or more.
Police said officers were patrolling nearby when they heard gunfire in the 600 block of 16th Avenue SW and responded to the scene. They found a dark-colored SUV driving in an alleyway without its headlights on.
Police said 35-year-old Dante Leavy Martin attempted to rob a man at gunpoint Monday night outside a Hawkeye Convenience Store in southeast Cedar Rapids.
No one was injured; police are investigating
Sully the Russian tortoise and Ginny the African pygmy hedgehog were taken from the Old MacDonald’s Farm barn at Bever Park sometime between 12:30 and 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Police arrested a 25-year-old Illinois man Thursday after he allegedly led officers on a high-speed chase on Interstate 380.
Police arrested a Davenport man Thursday after he was allegedly spotted in a stolen pickup truck at a Kwik Star in northeast Cedar Rapids.
Police arrested a Cedar Rapids couple last week on multiple counts of animal neglect, after eight animals were found living in dismal conditions.
Arrests in animal cases are up so far this year on Cedar Rapids, figures show.
A man arrived at a hospital Wednesday evening suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound, police said.
A gun battle in the Cedar Rapids Carnegie library ends in death for an officer.
Members of the city’s new citizens’ police review board met for the first time Thursday and discussed their visions for promoting belonging and inclusion, and building bridges between the community and local police.
A teenage girl who took advanced classes and played on her high school basketball team — and dreamed of someday running her own business — was found dead this week with a bullet wound in a crashed car she had borrowed while visiting her older sister in Cedar Rapids, according to interviews and authorities.
Emergency responders and a hospital that treated a Cedar Rapids man for a gunshot wound after he allegedly killed his parents and sister must share his medical records with prosecutors, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Officers were called just before 6:30 a.m. to the Hawthorne Hills apartment complex — in the 2200 block of C Street SW — for reports of a single-vehicle wreck.
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