An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he had multiple videos of child pornography saved in an app on his phone.
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An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he had multiple videos of child pornography saved in an app on his phone.
Shy of firing university employees who made inflammatory comments following the fatal shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk last week, Iowa’s Board of Regents on Wednesday directed its three public campuses to conduct immediate investigations into any employee accused of violating their social media policy.
Three people were injured Tuesday night in a fire at an apartment building in the 400 block of Jacolyn Drive SW, Cedar Rapids, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.
The development was one of seven Corridor-area projects to receive recent state-issued workforce housing tax credits.
Roughly 30 people marched otuside the Iowa Department for the Blind building in Des Moines Tuesday to protest the changes made under new department leadership, which protesters said has silenced concerns from department employees regarding the changes.
Alliant Energy’s plans for a natural gas fired power plant northwest of The Eastern Iowa Airport raise “concerns for airport safety and regulatory compliance,” according to a study commissioned by the Cedar Rapids Airport Commission.
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson said the assassination of Charlie Kirk highlights what she called a pattern of left-wing violence against conservatives. “I don’t think it’s an American problem. I think it’s a left-wing problem,” she told reporters.
To a gathering of residents in Dubuque this week, David Cwiertny, director of the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination at the University of Iowa, said there is “no such thing as risk-free water.”
Tiffin is Iowa’s fastest-growing city. And as it has grown, so have its needs. The community gathered Tuesday to break ground on construction of a new recreation center that’s designed to meet those needs and future needs.
Jack Whitver, the Iowa Senate Majority Leader who has been battling a brain tumor for more than a year, will not seek re-election and will step aside as leader, he announced Tuesday.
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The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so “degraded and contaminated” that traditional DNA testing couldn’t help investigators identify the infant or his mother. Advanced testing developed by a Texas lab in 2018 helped investigators identify the mother, who was arrested last week.
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