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Iowa City is looking for a developer to turn a vacant downtown lot into a mixed-use building that could offer anything from entertainment and hotel rooms, to dining and office space. There is one proposal the city will not consider: luxury student housing.

Nearly seven years after a Mt. Pleasant man underwent a coronary artery bypass graft at University of Iowa Health Care in January 2018, UIHC has agreed to pay him $250,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging negligence.

A judge lowered bail from $500,000 to $100,000 for a Cedar Rapids woman charged with fatally stabbing the father of two of her children in January. If released, she must wear an ankle monitor and be under the supervision of 6th Judicial Department of Correctional Services pending trial set for Dec. 10.

University of Iowa Health Care will pay $1.2 million to the parents of a 17-year-old Iowa City High School senior who died unexpectedly in July 2020 after several UIHC providers mistook her symptoms of a developing pulmonary embolism as COVID.

Its insurance company has already paid about $1.4 million, and further penalties are possible after an explosion in Marengo.

First time the county has owned direct affordable housing stock

See photos as Iowa Republicans addressed supporters in CR ahead of November’s election.

Iowa Republican U.. Sen. Joni Ernst, who fielded questions for an hour from a crowd of about 30 people during a town hall in Marengo, was asked her thoughts on Harris’ pick of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as a running mate.