A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a Marion man for attempting to solicit a 13-year-old girl, asking her to meet him Hiawatha for sex — not knowing he was communicating with an undercover officer posing as a teen.
Cedar Rapids Police Officers pursued a speeding vehicle Tuesday until the driver crashed into a water-filled ditch and ran from the wreck.
Robins man, along with others, set up underground market to sell access to shipping platform, causing retailers to refund money for items never returned. This resulted in $8 million loss for retailers across the country. They will be prosecuted in Florida for mail fraud and other related charges.
Google will invest another $1 billion in a Council Bluffs data center and $1.3 million on water quality projects in the Missouri River Basin in southwest Iowa. The tech company still is considering whether to build a data center in Cedar Rapids.
Beyond heavy winds, the storms brought flash flooding in Iowa City and farther south, where the weather service said rains up to 3.5 inches from the storm were reported.
Nearly six years after a University of Iowa Cambus slipped on icy roads in Coralville and veered into the oncoming lane, hitting another vehicle and injuring the woman inside, the state has agreed to settle a resulting lawsuit for $68,000.
A team of three ISU instructors and 13 students traversed the Midwest for eight days in late May, chasing storms and visiting weather centers and landmarks as part of a course on storm observation.
The milestone will be celebrated with an open house at the nonprofit organization’s clinic in southwest Cedar Rapids on Wednesday.
A trained weather spotter reported about 6:30 p.m. that there were 8 to 10 inches of water covering the roadway between West Park Road and Rocky Shore Drive in Iowa City.
A man was arrested Tuesday after crashing his car in a Marion neighborhood where police say he robbed multiple people at gunpoint.
Local families still waiting for their loved ones’ murders to be solved support the Iowa Attorney General’s Office setting up a statewide cold case unit. The new unit, announced last month, was being touted Tuesday in Cedar Rapids.
The trials for two of the three people accused of murdering a Cedar Rapids man in Missouri have been scheduled for next year, and the third trial has yet to be scheduled.
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