Hundreds of volunteers assisted in almost 40 home repair projects in Cedar Rapids this week for the 10th annual Transform Week.
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Hundreds of volunteers assisted in almost 40 home repair projects in Cedar Rapids this week for the 10th annual Transform Week.
This week on the podcast, Donald Trump returns to Iowa, Rob Sand is going on tour, and a Western Iowa Republican primary field grows. Listen for a recap in this week in Iowa politics.
USDTL allegedly “returned a false positive result for cocaine,” the lawsuit claims, and no additional testing was performed to confirm the results.
The Keokuk residents are suing Roquette America, a corn syrup and corn starch producer.
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.
An Oxford man was sentenced to 13 years for soliciting a girl he believed was 15-years-old for sex and receiving child pornography. An undercover officer was posing as a minor online and nabbed the man when he showed up to meet the girl for sex.
Federal jury convicts Cedar Rapids man for selling heroin/fentanyl mix to Marion couple who died from overdoses in 2023. He faces 40 years and possibly up to life in federal prison.
Iowa State Auditor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand rebuked party labels and fielded questions during a town hall Wednesday in Waukee. It was the first stop of 100 that Sand will make across the state this summer and fall. He’s slated to visit all of Iowa’s 99 counties, including two stops in Lee County, to its two county seats.
Cedar Rapids Animal Care and Control will now report directly to the City Manager’s office in a move meant to better support the animal welfare agency amid ongoing staffing issues.
The charges are the first after Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate in March claimed 277 Iowans without U.S. citizenship illegally voted or registered to vote in recent elections.
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.
A new Louisiana law that rolls back protections from development in isolated wetlands is inspired by a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that critics say could worsen flooding and destroy vital habitat.
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