Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids

Czech Town Station will soon offer chimichangas, French toast, cocktails and lunch at the former Lost & Found Provisions and Spirits location in the Czech Village.

Two teens responsible for killing a University of Iowa student, Malik Sheets, 20, during a party June 18, 2020, were sentenced to prison time Friday. Christian Emedi was sentenced to 15 years in prison and Marshawn Jeffries was sentenced to five years. Emedi was the actual shooter. Jeffries had a gun at the party and threatened others.

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A taxpayer-funded tourism agency in Alabama is standing by its chief executive after he pleaded guilty to felony fraud in Cedar Rapids, where a music festival he oversaw lost millions.

Police are investigating a second fatal shooting in less than 24 hours in southeast Cedar Rapids, and court records show the two men who died had been involved in a fight in 2020.

SWISHER — Cedar Rapids and Swisher firefighters rescued a man Thursday afternoon who was trapped in a corn grain silo …

Officers found 19-year-old Cordal R. Lewis lying dead in the street with one or more gunshot wounds, in the 300 block of 31st Street Drive SE on Thursday afternoon.

The FedEx Ground warehouse in southwest Cedar Rapids is expected to create 359 part-time jobs and 75 full-time positions, with 35 of those jobs at the state’s high-quality wage threshold of $23.20 an hour.

Cedar Rapids native Austin Frerick says he will fight for a fair and progressive tax structure and to level the playing field for locally owned farms, restaurants and businesses so they can compete against foreign corporations.

"That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody" will appear Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids, on its farewell tour.

The laid-back country singer has five albums to draw from when he performs Feb. 3, 2022, at the Paramount Theatre in downtown Cedar Rapids.

The former finance director of the defunct Go Cedar Rapids was convicted for his part in the scheme to defraud a local bank in loan used to pay the failed Newbo Evolve music and cultural event i 2018.

The city of Cedar Rapids has secured a estimated $8.4 million in federal funding to help clear 2020 derecho debris from local watersheds. Initial work will begin on Willow Creek and Prairie Creek.

Among the proposals this year are bills that would require cities to prove there is a public safety need for where they place traffic cameras, and limit enforcement to speeding violations of 20 miles per hour or more over the speed limit and cap the amount of revenue an agency can generate from tickets.

Nearly two dozen of the brightest and bluest musicians will perform at the Olympic South Side Theater in Cedar Rapids at 6 p.m. Saturday night, Jan. 29, for the sold-out daBluesapalooza.

Almost 10 years after it opened its first location, Jamaican Pat reopens a permanent home base in NewBo City Market, the location where it all started.