The Downtown and MedQuarter districts teamed up to bring holiday lights to Cedar Rapids’ urban core from First Avenue from 10th Street to First Street SE.
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The Downtown and MedQuarter districts teamed up to bring holiday lights to Cedar Rapids’ urban core from First Avenue from 10th Street to First Street SE.
One Iowa City man was convicted by a jury and two others testified about the drug robbery that ended in the death of Kejuan Winters last year.
Cedar Rapids Reserve Officer Scott Fruehling, who has been employed with the agency since September 1994, will not perform any police duties while the officer-involved shooting is being investigated, according to a news release.
The Iowa Board of Nursing has suspended the license of Michael Schleicher of Fairfield, a nurse accused of engaging in more than 25,000 phone calls or text messages with an underage patient.
The refugees are settling in cities across the state, including Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, the Quad-Cities, Sioux City and Council Bluffs.
With the COVID-19 infection once again surging during the holiday season, we asked medical experts how Iowans can be safe in the coming weeks.
Changes to the city’s nuisance abatement policy make it easier to crack down on absentee landlords for failing to show up for inspections or otherwise neglecting their properties.
The number of patients hospitalized for the coronavirus in Iowa dropped this week, the first decline following six consecutive weeks of increases, according to the Iowa Department of Public Health. Despite that, total available ICU beds dipped to another all-time low this past week, reaching just 130 available beds on Tuesday.
Drew Blahnik, convicted of killing Chris Bagley, will now go by the name of Johnny Blahnik Church. Court records will stay in his birth name.
She also faces a misdemeanor charge for allegedly performing sex acts with a different male inmate.
Police are still searching for the driver but found two juveniles who jumped from the vehicle and ran after the crash.
The Cedar Rapids Public Library will celebrate its 125th anniversary next month with exhibits and displays of history at the downtown and Ladd locations.
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