Emily Andersen

The roundtable — held at the Cedar Rapids Ladd Library — was convened and led by State Auditor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand. Educators covered topics ranging from education savings accounts and curriculum, to school funding and AEA changes.

A Cedar Rapids woman was charged with an OWI this week after a vehicle crashed into the Iowa River on the University of Iowa campus.

A Marion man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he offered to pay someone he believed was a 15-year-old minor to perform a sex act with him, and sent them an explicit photo.

The Iowa County Sheriff’s Office has released the names of two people who were shot Friday on Interstate 80 near the westbound on-ramp of exit 225, in rural Williamsburg.

A North Liberty man was arrested Monday on charges that he sexually abused a 15-year-old.

When Mike Tupper was co-chair of the Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force, he was in charge of coordinating efforts with the National Immigration Forum to provide immigration-focused training opportunities to law enforcement agencies around the country and to advocate for immigration legislation at the national level.

One person died Thursday in Poweshiek County after being hit by a semi-truck while stopped on the side of Interstate 80, according to a crash report from the Iowa State Patrol.

One person was killed Thursday in an industrial accident at the construction site off of I-380 and Wright Brothers Blvd. according to the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

A Belle Plaine man died Thursday morning in a head-on collision in rural Poweshiek County, according to an Iowa State Patrol accident report.

An 18-year-old from Des Moines was arrested Friday in Linn County on charges that he abused two children while he was living in Cedar Rapids a few years ago.

The North Liberty Police Department has seen unusually high turnover in the last year. Since April 2024, more than two-thirds of its officers have resigned. Now, the department is working to rebuild, with emphasis on better communication and officer satisfaction.

Staff from Cedar Rapids’ water treatment plant and the hazardous materials team at the Cedar Rapids Fire Department worked together Friday morning to run through a drill to test the safety procedures both departments have in place for an emergency hazmat scenario.

The Coralville Police Department released the name Friday of a man who was shot to death at a mobile home park in Coralville Wednesday evening.

A Tipton man was arrested this week on charges of vehicular homicide in relation to a fatal crash that happened in July 2024.

A Marion man was arrested Wednesday in Cedar Rapids on multiple traffic related charges after police say he was clocked driving a motorcycle 177 mph on Highway 100 and Highway 30