Emily Andersen

The Marion City Council discussed during a work session Tuesday the possibility of adding traffic cameras at certain intersections in the city, as a way of helping with the Marion Police staffing shortage.

A Cedar Rapids 16-year-old is accused of shooting multiple times at other individuals Saturday, according to a criminal complaint. The complaint doesn’t state whether his arrest is related to the fatal shooting of another juvenile in the same area also Saturday.

Cedar Rapids School District and Cedar Rapids police officials are optimistic about the impact of contract changes made last summer for school resource officers — despite an increase in student arrests.

Two people were injured in a shooting Friday morning in Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

Two former GO Cedar Rapids officials were sentenced Thursday to more than a year in prison for bank fraud charges connected to the 2018 “newbo evolve” festival.

Three more people have been arrested in relation to a shots-fired incident that happened in Cedar Rapids in December, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday after a fatal shooting in northwest Cedar Rapids.

Arlene and John Yanecek, ages 81 and 75, of Cedar Rapids, were killed Saturday evening in a car crash at the intersection of Wiley Boulevard SW and Williams Boulevard SW.

A fatal fire in a Rodeway Inn in Cedar Rapids on Feb. 1 was caused by smoking materials that were in the room, according to the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

Internet hosting and domain-name registrar business GoDaddy announced last week it will be laying off 8 percent of its global workforce. That equates to 35 people at the company’s Hiawatha office, which is planning a move to downtown Cedar Rapids this year.

Two people were arrested over the weekend in relation to a shots fired incident that happened in December, and further arrests are expected, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

A Cedar Rapids man pleaded guilty Thursday morning to charges that he intentionally set a fire in a house with 15 animals inside. All 15 animals were killed in the fire.

The Anamosa State Penitentiary, currently a medium/maximum security facility, will be changed to a strictly medium security facility, according to a Friday news release from the Iowa Department of Corrections.

“He was an amazing father and brother and husband and cousin and best friend of many people,” Bridgette Vascik said of her husband. He was “honest, loving, dependable ... positive, supporting.”

A Cedar Rapids man who was shot to death on Jan. 8 was reportedly meeting with the accused shooter that day to sell drugs, according to a criminal complaint.