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Top health officials in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City agree Iowa is facing a physician shortage, though it is not as severe in the Corridor as in rural areas of the state. The Iowa Medical Society will be discussing that and other “pressing issues” in a series of meetings with health care providers in Cedar Rapids this week.

The helicopter crash in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials were killed is likely to reverberate across the Middle East, where Iran’s influence runs wide and deep.

There’s a possibility of three rounds of storms Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service’s Quad Cities bureau. The strongest storms are expected Tuesday afternoon and evening, and could bring damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes.

A former employee at the Polk Alternative Education Center was arrested Friday on charges that she provided or indicated she would provide marijuana and vape products to minors.

Available at the Cedar Valley Humane Society

In the face of objections from MercyOne — the Des Moines area health care system that for six years provided management over a troubled Mercy Iowa City — a federal judge is leaning toward approving a long-negotiated liquidation plan for the now-bankrupt community hospital that exposes MercyOne to liability and lawsuits.

Cedar Rapids signed off on tax incentives last week for an $8.5 million project to build two commercial facilities in the southwest side and toward Steve Emerson’s ‘Muskwaki’ building redevelopment.

Also, Linn-Mar seniors commit to being future educators