Emily Andersen

The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating a shots fired incident that happened Tuesday night in southeast Cedar Rapids, according to a news release.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Monday on charges that he requested to meet with someone he believed was 13 for sexual purposes.

The Linn County Jail last weekend began housing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement inmates through a previously established agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Monday on charges that he cut and stole a piece of fiber wire from behind his neighbor’s house, cutting off internet and cable services to two neighborhoods in southwest Cedar Rapids.

An Iowa City man was arrested this week on a charge of second-degree sexual abuse of a minor.

A Linn County man who was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash Saturday has died, according to a press release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.

Another Georgia man has been charged in Johnson County in a 2023 forgery scheme.

Cedar Rapids schools officials will spend the next several weeks speaking with staff, parents and community members to consider ways the district can reduce the cost of a proposed $211 million bond measure that seeks to support future operations, including building a new middle school.

The Linn County Attorney’s Office ruled Monday that the use of deadly force by two Cedar Rapids police officers in February — during an exchange of gunfire during an 11-hour standoff — was justified. No one was injured in the shooting.

A Linn County man was transported by Lifeguard Air Ambulance to the University of Iowa Health Care with life-threatening injuries Saturday after a single-vehicle crash on Springville Road, according to a press release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.

Iowa is one of 31 states in the U.S. that requires vehicles to have two license plates displayed while driving — one on the front and one on the back of the car — with very few exceptions.

Leah Fuller stumbled into mountain biking mostly by accident, happening upon a trail in George Wyth State Park when she was growing up in Waterloo. Now, more than 30 years later, she runs a Linn County area Facebook group with more than 300 members for women mountain bikers.

One person died Thursday after a crash between a car and a pedestrian on Interstate 80 near Williamsburg, according to the Iowa State Patrol.

The victim of a shooting, for which a Cedar Rapids man was arrested Tuesday, was taken off life support and ‘remains in a comatose state,’ according to a criminal complaint filed March 28.

A Cedar Rapids man is facing multiple assault charges in relation to a series of attacks on individuals in the northwest quadrant of the city.