Emily Andersen

Linn County Sheriff Brian Gardner was honored last week by the Iowa Police Chiefs Association with the Law Enforcement Executive of the Year Award for 2022.

John Schultz has two passions: bicycling and serving his community through the Rotary Club of Linn County. This summer, he’ll be combining both as he joins the Ride the Rockies tour in Colorado to raise money for the club’s youth program.

Karen Smith, like most moms, would do anything for her kids. That includes walking almost 300 miles across the state of Iowa, twice.

A Coralville man was arrested Wednesday on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, after a gun he had brought to the bar was used in a fatal shooting outside the H-Bar in October, according to the Iowa City Police Department.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested this week on charges that he shot several times into a house on Saturday.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s annual Click It or Ticket campaign started this week in advance of Memorial Day weekend. The Iowa Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau is urging Iowan’s to buckle up as part of the campaign, as traffic fatalities in the state remain higher than in previous years.

Cedar Rapids firefighters rescued a man from a trench that collapsed while he was repairing utility lines to a local business Tuesday morning. This was the first time the fire department has performed this kind of rescue, according to a news release.

Inside Out, a Johnson County nonprofit organization that supports people returning to society after being incarcerated, will be opening a reentry house in Iowa City for low-income, formerly incarcerated men.

Alexander Glover, 21, drowned Saturday in West Okoboji Lake. He was an active member of the community and a good friend, his mother says.

Food banks and other food-based nonprofits are facing a crisis as inflation makes it harder to get food, and means more people are asking for food. At the same time, funding from Covid is disappearing and donations are decreasing.

A Cedar Rapids woman who was killed in a garage fire Thursday has been identified as Mia Schmidt, 57, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

The Marion City Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve a contract with Beverly, Mass.-based Sensys Gatso USA, to install and maintain two automated traffic cameras, as well as maintain a mobile traffic unit in the city of Marion.

A man was arrested last week in relation to a shooting during a birthday party in October 2021 in a Cedar Rapids hotel.

A Cedar Rapids man was seriously injured Thursday in a motorcycle crash in rural Linn County, according to a news release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.

An Iowa City man was arrested in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday by the U.S. Marshals Service in relation to a shots-fired incident in Iowa City in February, according to a news release from the Iowa City Police Department.