Witnesses testify they saw a Cedar Rapids man, driving an SUV, go down embankment, cross onto Interstate 380 and crash into a motorcyclist, who was ejected and thrown into median cable barriers. He was dead when first responders arrived.
An Iowa City building that houses a veterans affairs clinic, a military recruitment office, and a water science center for the U.S. Geological Survey could be sold by the federal government after the U.S. General Services Administration announced Tuesday it is determining the efficiency of the space.
“What if the next Caitlin Clark gets away from Iowa because our schools are handcuffed?” That question has motivated one Iowa state lawmaker to wade into the turbulent waters of college athletics recruiting.
Senior Judge James Drew will decide within 30 days whether a search warrant related to the 1995 disappearance of KIMT-TV anchor Jodi Huisentruit should remain sealed now that John Vansice, a longtime person of interest in the case, has died.
Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions awaits a decision from South Dakota regulators on its project to build a pipeline across five states.
Iowa House and Senate lawmakers Tuesday advanced bills aiming to — among other things — increase intellectual diversity on the University of Iowa campus and sexual abuse awareness and prevention education in schools, restrict state funds to libraries that are American Library Association members, and allow public schools to offer an elective social studies course on the Bible.
The House Education Committee on Tuesday amended a bill that would have banned minors from attending drag shows. The amended bill strikes references to drag shows and instead inserts language from another House Bill that would criminalize exposing minors to “obscene performances.”
Two people were arrested Tuesday on charges that they forged multiple fake checks and used them to steal more than $25,000 from their Iowa City employer.
In 2018, Decorah voters also denied the idea of forming a city electric utility, but by only three votes. The City Council decided to try again, setting Tuesday’s special election. This time, the margin against the idea grew to 182 votes.
“Service and staff reductions will be avoided and contributions to reserve funds will resume,” the city said in a message.
President Donald Trump vowed to keep up his campaign of “swift and unrelenting action” in reorienting the nation’s economy, immigration and foreign policy in an unyielding address before Congress that left Democratic legislators to register their dissent with stone faces, placards calling out "lies,” and one legislator’s ejection.
Swisher voters approved a 1 percent local-option sales tax in a special election Tuesday.Voters approved the sales tax by 75 percent. The tax needed 50 percent approval to pass.
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