Juliet Abdel will assume the role of president and CEO of the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance on July 28, replacing outgoing director Doug Neumann.
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Juliet Abdel will assume the role of president and CEO of the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance on July 28, replacing outgoing director Doug Neumann.
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.
Authorities say two firefighters were killed and another was badly injured after they were ambushed and shot while responding to a wildfire near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
A sharply divided Iowa Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court’s decision dismissing a former prisoner’s claim for damages due to wrongful imprisonment.
Reiterating Iowa’s “longstanding support for Israel and the Jewish community,” Gov. Kim Reynolds on Monday ordered the Board of Regents to review antisemitism policies at each of its universities and report back to her office on acts of antisemitism since Oct. 7, 2023.
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 Marion woman was sentenced to more than a year in federal prison for falsely claiming her residence had damage from the derecho, and receiving small business loan funds for a business that did not exist.
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.
An Iowa City man, who was previously convicted for enticing a minor, was sentenced to 10 years for enticing minors and sexually abusing one girl under the age of 13. The judge ran the recent sentence consecutively to his previous five-year sentence.
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Alsoin this week’s Government Notes, an Interstate 380 off-ramp at North Liberty will close this week.
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.
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