Regulators say they’ll seek enhanced penalties after widespread fish kill
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Regulators say they’ll seek enhanced penalties after widespread fish kill
Struggling early readers will receive detailed assistance plans and have the option to be held back, and elementary teachers in training will be required to take an aptitude test on early reading instruction.
“When we came together, it was really a conversation to say – are there ways, given our size, that we could be more agile, more responsive to the needs of our community partners, and build out a series of opportunities that we think improve access and affordability for students going forward?”
An Iowa City man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting and paralyzing a victim last year in downtown Iowa City. He must serve five years before being eligible for parole.
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Iowa DOT maintenance will close some Interstate 380 on-ramps and off-ramps overnight in Cedar Rapids this week.
More than 60% of Iowans’ donations to the sheriffs in 2022 were consumed by the expenses of a for-profit marketing company.
A judge takes Iowa City teen, who is accused in drag racing fatality, off house arrest but continues GPS monitoring and adds a curfew and $30,000 bail. Off house arrest, the teen also won’t receive jail credit towards a possible prison sentence if convicted.
A lightning strike started a fire in a Cedar Rapids home Tuesday morning, displacing a family, according to the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
A week after a Story County judge denied Iowa State University’s request the court dismiss a lawsuit from the family of a student who died three years ago in a crew club accident, the parties have agreed to settle the case — negating the need for a trial.
A Georgia man was arrested Monday in Iowa City on charges that he and two other men scammed someone out of $15,600 by pretending to be law enforcement officers.
David Schultz, 53, was found dead April 24 in a field in rural Sac County, not far from where his semitrailer truck was found abandoned more than five months earlier. Preliminary autopsy results from the State Medical Examiner’s Office indicated "no signs of trauma or serious injury," and authorities said they do not suspect foul play.
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