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.
Samantha Bevans showed no visible reaction when she heard the jury’s verdict, convicting her of first-degree murder for suffocating her stepmom, Jodie Bevans, in July 2022. She faces a life sentence without parole.
A woman was arrested Friday in Linn County on charges that she stole $18,100 from two different women whose identities she stole.
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
The Decorah-based private university announced in a news release Friday that an anonymous person’s donation is the second-largest planned gift to Luther College. More than $33 million has been committed to the college this fiscal year, topping the previous record of $26.1 million set in 2005-06.
Teachers and media toured Trailside Elementary, which will open to students in northeast Cedar Rapids this fall.
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