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The University of Iowa has initiated a national search for a new vice president for research — a key member of the president’s cabinet — after announcing last week that J. Martin (Marty) Scholtz is resigning after five years.
A stagecoach inn built in 1841 in West Liberty, Iowa was moved Monday from its location along Highway 6 to Heritage Park in West Liberty where it will be restored and eventually become a public museum.
A Cedar Rapids man, already serving 34 years for sexual assault, was convicted Friday for another offense, where he lured or physically took a woman up to a roof of a bar and sexually assaulted her. He faces another 10 years in prison.
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States including Iowa envision showing a video like the one from from group opposed to abortion rights.
Also, Cedar Rapids to consider development agreement for unnamed company’s data center
Mary Kay Novak McGrath, the ‘Angel of Czech Village’ in Cedar Rapids, has died at age 69 of pancreatic cancer. McGrath was a “visionary with a heart and soul for Cedar Rapids” who fueled the historic neighborhood’s revitalization.
The animal was found by a state conservation officer. A necropsy performed by Iowa State Veterinary Diagnostic Lab in Ames confirmed it was a male gray wolf, estimated to be about 2 years old, weighing 77 pounds.
Unseasonably warm weather — highs temperatures are expected to reach the 70s — has prompted the Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency to open the landfill turned recreation site to pedestrians two days this week.
Driven by a desire to explore, Sugar Bottom Bikes manager Nate Kullbom has the rare quality of performing well on everything from cyclocross to gravel racing. He’s found ways to draw new riders into the local cyclist community, celebrating people at all skill levels and coaching youth riders.
Cedar Rapids is on track to have its warmest winter on record, a National Weather Service meteorologist told The Gazette
The scores of less than 1 percent of the Iowa students in special education are being cited by the governor as the primary reason she is proposing to overhaul the state’s area education agencies.
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