A judge has sentenced a Cedar Rapids man who solicited a girl he thought was 15 to three years of probation -- instead of a possible five years in prison -- for the felony.
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A judge has sentenced a Cedar Rapids man who solicited a girl he thought was 15 to three years of probation -- instead of a possible five years in prison -- for the felony.
All three of Iowa’s public universities “have ceased participating” in a nationwide initiative to diversify corporate America by increasing the diversity of business school faculty after a Republican lawmaker and head of the House higher education committee brought the issue to the Board of Regents.
Lobbyists for cities and traffic camera companies said the companies’ work is more efficient than government and ultimately saves taxpayers
A panel of contest court judges ruled 2-1 Monday that a narrowly-passed $15 million bond issue at Highland schools would stand, even though Ainsworth precinct officials mistakenly gave ballots to 96 voters who were not school district residents, and should not have been allowed to vote on the matter.
Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes were two of the highest-profile Jan. 6 defendants and received some of the harshest punishments in what became the largest investigation in Justice Department history.
Engineers and the county’s emergency managers will be running tests from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday. “Please disregard any audible alerts or messages heard during this period,” emergency mangers advised in a news release.
“The cumulative amount of time spent by faculty, staff, and students processing unwanted email represents an enormous loss of personal and institutional productivity,” according to the new UI mass communications policy that took effect last week. “For email to remain a relevant means of communication, it must be strategic.
Dancing, music, ‘cocoanuts’ marked the holiday in Linn County
Grant Wood & friends were seriously kind to lecturers in Iowa City
Heeding pushback from parents, the Cedar Rapids school district announced Monday it will slow the launch of a new program aimed at better preparing high school students for careers and further education after they graduate.
Fresh off President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Senate on Monday passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes, the first measure he likely will sign into law and giving more weight to his plans to deport millions of migrants.
The warehouses will be a size that’s not currently available in Cedar Rapids. City Economic Development Project Coordinator Scott Mather said city staff get inquiries at least monthly for warehouse space that’s immediately available, and these projects will help meet that demand.
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