Emily Andersen

A seven-foot fence that the Department of Homeland Security is planning to erect in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Cedar Rapids — in an ongoing dispute with protesters over the lawn space in front of the building — will not require a permit after the city of Cedar Rapids said it has discovered an error in the property record that puts the intended fence on federal property.

An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he assaulted two women and attempted to sexually abuse them.

A barrier made of police tape that on Tuesday kept a crowd of protesters away from the U.S. Homeland Security Building in Cedar Rapids — where a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office is housed — could soon be replaced by a seven-foot, chain-link fence.

A West Union man died Sunday afternoon after a lawn mower accident, according to a press release from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of a 93-year-old man who died early Sunday morning in a fire in Fairfax.

An Anamosa man was arrested Sunday on several charges — including attempted murder, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office — after law enforcement officers say he purposefully hit multiple cars with his own and then threatened multiple people with a machete.

When Jaye Kennedy became the CEO of Waypoint Services in 2013, it felt like she was taking on the job that she’d been building toward her entire professional career. Twelve years later, Kennedy is passing the torch.

The goal of the drill is to make sure that firefighters are prepared to face what could be a highly dangerous situation.

Hundreds of people showed up Wednesday when Escucha Mi Voz, an Iowa City nonprofit that champions immigrant rights in Iowa, hosted a protest outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Cedar Rapids to show support for immigrants and to push back against increased ICE arrests.

One person died Monday after a crash just outside Anamosa, according to a crash report from the Iowa State Patrol.

A Waterloo man was arrested this week in Johnson County on charges that he sexually abused a child 13 years ago, when he was a teen.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating a shots fired incident that happened in southwest Cedar Rapids Monday evening, according to a press release from the department.

A Washington, Iowa, teen died this weekend after being shot in the head while squirrel hunting, according to a press release from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Nonprofit organizations across Iowa and around the country have been in a state of financial flux this year, and while providers can’t say with any certainty where recent changes will take them in the next few years, they can all agree on one thing: federal support cannot be replaced by community philanthropy.

Laura Castro was shocked and overwhelmed Thursday when she saw the video a bystander recorded of her fiancee, Jorge Gonzalez Ochoa, being tackled by three plainclothes men — who identified themselves as federal agents — and put in handcuffs while he was working at the Bread Garden Market in Iowa City.