Emily Andersen

Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks and Linn County Sheriff Brian Gardner encouraged Iowans to vote no on the proposed gun rights amendment that will be on the November ballot.

A Center Point-Urbana High School student has been charged with willful injury causing serious injury after he stabbed another Center Point-Urbana student at Vinton-Shellsburg High School on Monday evening.

The store’s license was suspended after an employee was caught selling alcohol to a minor. It is its second alcohol sales violation in two years.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating a shooting after a man was found with a gunshot wound in his chest Sunday.

A Cedar Rapids couple will donate a total of $2.1 million to seven Linn County non-profits, according to a news release from United Way of East Central Iowa, one of the beneficiaries.

A Hiawatha man was arrested Thursday on federal charges that he left threatening voicemail messages for an Arizona county election official and an official at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Advocates for Social Justice worked with the family of William Rich, who was killed by police on Aug. 30, to organize protests requesting the release of police body camera footage of the incident. The non-profit released a statement Thursday in response to a decision that the shooting was legally justified.

Scam calls asking for payment of non-existent court fees have been growing more common, and scammers are finding more ways to appear legitimate, including using the names of actual law enforcement officers and telling victims they missed jury duty, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.

A Linn County Deputy, who was shot several times while responding to an armed robbery last year, was awarded a Purple Heart Award Tuesday by the Iowa State Police Association.

Fall colors have already started appearing in the trees in Iowa, and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the time to go leaf watching is now.

The Mechanicsville Fire Department is raising funds to purchase grain bin rescue equipment.

Mercy Hospital’s annual Especially For You Race Against Breast Cancer will take place Sunday, Oct. 9. The race includes a 5K run, a 5K walk, or a one-mile family fun walk.

Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks released a report Wednesday from the Iowa Attorney General’s Office detailing the investigation into the officer-involved shooting of William Isaac Rich in Cedar Rapids on Aug. 30. The report concluded that the shooting was justified, and Maybanks agreed in a released statement.

One person is dead after a crash between a semi-truck and a tractor in Poweshiek County Monday evening.

Three candidates are on the ballot for the Iowa Senate in District 42, which covers much of rural Linn and Benton counties. Charlie McClintock won the Republican Primary in June. He will be facing Democratic nominee Jessica Wiskus, and Bruce Gardner, who is running without a party.