Emily Andersen

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has determined the deaths of two people in April at a mobile home park in Springville were both suicides.

Cedar Rapids first responders saw a significant drop in fireworks-related citations and calls for service this year in June and the first week of July than in 2024, but an increase in fires after state legislation was passed earlier this year preventing cities from banning fireworks on July 3 and 4.

An Aurora, Iowa, man was arrested Friday in Cedar Rapids on one charge of arson after police say he lit a sheet on fire in the St. Luke’s Hospital Emergency Department.

A Linn County housing program that launched last year — and initially struggled to find landlords to participate — is up and running with seven people currently being housed through the pilot program.

A pesar de tener un historial limpio y una vida construida en Iowa desde que emigró a los Estados Unidos a la edad de 13 años, Pascual Pedro, ahora de 20 años, fue detenido por ICE en una cita de registro regular el martes.

Pascual Pedro was 13 when he arrived in the U.S. with his dad. For seven years, he’s lived with his grandparents in West Liberty, where he graduated from high school, and then got a work permit so he could get a job. Last week, during a regular check-in at the ICE office in Cedar Rapids, he was detained, and now is awaiting deportation.

Fireworks vendors and law enforcement alike are gearing up in preparation for Independence Day celebrations after new legislation was passed this year prohibiting Iowa cities from banning fireworks on July 3 and 4 and Dec. 31.

A Cedar Rapids man was charged last week with multiple counts of sexual abuse after police say he sexually abused a girl when she was younger than 12 and again when she was 13.

A 76-year-old man died Sunday when he was hit by a car while riding a bicycle in Fayette County, according to a crash report from the Iowa State Patrol.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested over the weekend after police say he punched his girlfriend in the face, stabbed her multiple times with a screwdriver and held her against her will.

On July 1, Iowa will join 30 other states in outlawing any phone use while driving that isn’t hands-free. The law was passed earlier this year, and will replace Iowa’s current rules about phone usage while driving, which law enforcement officers say were difficult to enforce, since only texting was banned.

A woman was arrested in Linn County Friday in relation to a Cedar Rapids crash in May that caused a serious injury.

A Columbus Junction man was arrested this week on a charge that he dragged a man behind a van on a gravel road in Columbus Junction.

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.