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NORTH LIBERTY — Construction has started to widen Interstate 380 to six lanes between Penn Street and Swan Lake Road in the North Liberty area.

Bill would increase funding for conservation, but lacks climate-oriented IRA funding

A Marion woman, crying throughout her victim impact statement Friday in Linn County District Court, says she still waits for her 17-year-old son to come home even though she knows he was fatally shot May 10, 2023. Her only son, she said, should be graduating from high school this Sunday.

The federal declaration comes as more than a third of Iowa’s counties are under state disaster proclamations after a week of dangerous and damaging weather.

A group of pro-Palestinian protesters removed from University of Iowa property earlier this month while setting up a prohibited encampment are asking a court to intervene and declare them constitutionally entitled to assemble and voice their demands and grievances on UI grounds.

The historic building was constructed by Rinderknecht Associates, a 144-year-old Cedar Rapids construction company. Today, there are about 540 students at Franklin Middle School, which has many services for its students, including community partners, a therapist, a peace facilitator to help resolve conflict, a barbershop and a food pantry.

The rural school in the Iowa City Community School District is permanently closing its doors at the end of the school year next month.

The Iowa Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a Cedar Rapids doctor being sued for sexual exploitation and negligence by a former patient.