Peter Teahen and John Ockenfels left May 5 from the Eastern Iowa Airport, bound for points around the world in an effort to raise money and awareness in the fight to end polio. They encountered mechanical and weather setbacks early on, but now they’re back on track -- currently in Pakistan, with their sights set on Asia.
A Cresco man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sexually abused multiple Boy Scouts while serving as a troop leader in Cresco.
A federal jury convicts a Cedar Rapids man for seven armed robberies in a 12-day crime spree in 2020. He robbed Subways, grocery stores and a pizza place.
A woman testified her ex-boyfriend and father of her child started threatening and intimidating her before he fired multiple shots at her vehicle. One of the bullets struck the backseat window, where their child was sitting.
Trump’s former vice president, Pence pushed back on the former president’s assertions related to the 2020 election results and the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol
Judge Anuradha Vaitheswaran, who grew up in Cedar Rapids, retired from the panel.
A North Liberty man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he sexually abused a 10-year-old child when he was 16.
Feds don’t plan to investigate the May 28 failure of the Davenport apartment building, but said they are ‘disturbed“ by the event.
A Lone Tree man was arrested this week on charges that he sexually abused a woman he met at a bar in Iowa City.
A man who was killed in a crash Tuesday morning in Linn County has been identified by the Linn County Sheriff’s Office as David Dickson, 50, of Marion.
The annual City of Cedar Rapids “Ride the Districts” bike ride is open to all residents next weekend. The ride tours bike path improvements during free event.
Every year, the hypoxic “dead zone” materializes as a large area of nearly uninhabitable waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientist Nancy Rabalais, who has spent decades researching the area, is training the next generation of researchers.
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