A Cedar Rapids man is charged after authorities said they found 16 pounds of ice meth concealed in his house, along with $200,000 in a toddler’s room.
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A Cedar Rapids man is charged after authorities said they found 16 pounds of ice meth concealed in his house, along with $200,000 in a toddler’s room.
Educators in Iowa have been relaying their concerns with opening-day remarks made by Republican Iowa Senate President Jake Chapman, who accused teachers of having a “sinister agenda” regarding books in school libraries, Democratic legislative leaders said Thursday.
Forecasters are predicting that a winter storm could dump nearly a foot of snow in parts of Iowa, though the heaviest snowfall is predicted to fall west of Cedar Rapids and Iowa City.
DES MOINES — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds canceled official activities on Thursday and Friday due to an illness, but her spokesman said she tested negative for COVID-19.
Heading into a spring semester plagued by soaring COVID cases – far above rates when students returned in the fall – a University of Northern Iowa professor again is being forced to do all his teaching online due to his insistence students in his classes wear face masks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job.
The current surge in COVID-19 cases has resulted in more delays in health care for the average Iowan “than there were at any other time during the pandemic,” the CEO of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics said this week. Not only are health care systems facing high COVID-19 hospitalization rates, but more staff are calling in sick than ever before.
A Cedar Rapids man who forced his way into a Coggon couple’s home by impersonating an officer and then assaulted them as he demanded they take him to a safe in their home, was formally charged Thursday. If convicted, he faces up to 82 years in prison.
The five supervisors unanimously voted down the sheriff’s request to buy a $240,000 Lenco BearCat armored vehicle to replace to larger one used since 2014.
Watch live as Maj. Gen. Ben Corell, the Iowa National Guard adjutant general, delivers the annual Condition of the Guard address at the Iowa statehouse at 10 a.m. Thursday.
“We feel defeated,” the Iowa Postal Workers Union president says as the COVID-19 surge worsens U.S. Postal Service delays stemming from new service standards that lengthened the mail delivery window.
Iowa senator celebrates 63 years in office, tells why he seeks re-election
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