Two people were arrested Friday on charges they broke into a garage in Cedar Rapids and stole an all-terrain vehicle and multiple power tools, totaling more than $10,000 worth of property.
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Two people were arrested Friday on charges they broke into a garage in Cedar Rapids and stole an all-terrain vehicle and multiple power tools, totaling more than $10,000 worth of property.
In a campuswide message Thursday in the throes of an unfolding investigation into the University of Iowa’s compliance with new DEI laws, UI President Barbara Wilson stressed her campus “has been working diligently to comply” -- despite comments a UI employee made in an undercover video aired on Fox News.
With lawmakers back in their district for their month-long August recess, the question remains when, and if, the former ophthalmologist and 24-year Army veteran will use that time to honor her pledge to hold a public in-person town hall.
Missouri Republican U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt will join national conservative commentator and Republican political strategist Scott Jennings as a featured guest at Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson’s fifth annual “BBQ Bash” campaign fundraiser Aug. 23 in Cedar Rapids. Meanwhile, U.S. Senate candidate Nathan Sage will visit 99 counties in 99 days.
Plus, we discuss the continued messaging battle over the “One, Big, Beautiful Bill” and Iowa Republicans taking on Rob Sand.
Also, Attorney General urges Iowans to watch out for ticket scams ahead of Iowa State Fair
President Donald Trump wants Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley to sidestep the ‘blue slip’ process by which home-state senators get a say in judicial nominees
A 3-week-old baby and 6-year-old child were found “crying and sweating profusely” in a locked car on Monday at the Walmart on the southwest side of Cedar Rapids. The temperature inside the car was 100 degrees. The driver and mother of the 3 week old was charged with child endangerment.
Cedar Rapids woman received 4 year probation for abandoning stepchildren, an 8-year-old and 6-year-old, on Tower Terrace Road, near I-380, in June 2024. She also was sentenced for falsely reporting their father shot her in the stomach about two months later.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report Thursday that a person was being held at gunpoint, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.
A former employee of St. Matthew Catholic School was arrested Wednesday on a charge of indecent contact with a child.
The installation of saturated buffers and bioreactors will help to improve the Middle Cedar watershed by keeping nutrients in the fields, according to IDALS.
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