Two animals, who underwent multiple surgeries for mammary cancer and a nose injury that required reconstructive surgery, are ready for adoption thanks to nonprofit Critter Crusaders who paid for their medical care.
Iowa Public Safety Commissioner Stephan Bayens says: “We just can’t continue to expect our folks to just bury the hurt and the trauma and the stress that they see every day and just go about their day and be good moms and dads or husbands or daughters or whatever it is. ”
State found safety issues with ride where Marion boy died
Depending on who’s telling the story, it may have happened during a blizzard in Washington or a national legislative conference in Atlanta. There’s agreement on the important points – there was drinking involved and the plan was sketched out on cocktail napkins during a discussion that spanned more than one bar and continued in the backseat of a taxi cab.
His family is waiting on answers about what happened after Mmengwa Asukulu’s body was found at a construction site.
The report found low levels of disproportionality in citations, but a higher level of disproportionality in arrests. People of color were arrested twice as often following a traffic stop.
Available at the Cedar Valley Humane Society
A technology advocacy coalition called Chamber of Progress takes aim at Sen. Chuck Grassley in online targeted ads for a new bill that would regulate Big Tech companies like Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google. The ad claims the bill would block Amazon from selling its brand name products and end free shipping for customers.
There are 21 pending murder cases in Linn, Johnson counties, mainly due to the pandemic. Prosecutors estimate it will take several years to reduce the entire backlog created in 2020 and this year.
“Coe has made significant investments in this area, and will continue to do so going forward,” says the college’s new president.
The Decorah-based Foot-Notes band and Vesterheim Museum are hosting a YouTube watch party on Tuesday of their recorded concert of music found in the notebooks of Norwegian immigrant musician Johan Arndt Mostad, who arrived in Iowa as an adult in 1869 and was a popular performer for local dances and house parties.
Kennis R. Petties, 30, was driving a car with a non-functioning tail light, which caught the attention of Cedar Rapids police at 16th Avenue and M Street SW, according to a criminal complaint.
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