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Two people were killed in a head-on crash near Hopkinton Saturday evening.

Speaking at a campaign fundraiser, the Republican AG said her office will ‘get all the way to the bottom’ after an apparently undercover video shows a University of Iowa worker describing how staff is circumventing a new state law that bans DEI

Iowa has the nation’s seventh-highest net out-migration of young, educated people and the highest such figure in the Midwest, according to a report from Common Sense Institute Iowa

Shots fire incidents skyrocketed in 2020 around the country, but those numbers have been dropping in Cedar Rapids in Iowa City and are now lower than pre-pandemic numbers in both cities. City and county officials say it could be a result of the violence intervention programs that have been active in both cities for the last few years, although it’s difficult to know exactly what causes the changes in statistics.

Morgan Creek Park ranger joined the department in October 1981

UIHC officials in April 2025 announced that the 3 Center inpatient unit — after being closed for many years — would “soon be refurbished and reopened.” The 26-bed unit, officials said, would be dedicated to family medicine — offering acute care for patients and learning opportunities for residents in the “community-based hospital setting.”

A newly created position for a prosecutor with the Linn County Attorney’s Office will focus on lower level felony crimes - where offenders have the best chance for a resolution without prison time. The position will also help lower caseloads for others prosecuting violent crimes.

Members of the Cedar Rapids West Rotary Club dropped thousands of ping pong balls from a lift above the Cedar Rapids Downtown Farmers Market this morning as part of a fundraiser.