Homeowners in the area of the 1700 block of East Pacific Street captured video from security cameras.
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Homeowners in the area of the 1700 block of East Pacific Street captured video from security cameras.
For Josh Sesay, volunteering led to connections with medical staff while also compassionately helping others
The Cedar Rapids Public Library was honored with the Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize to recognize the library’s influence on the community. The prize is awarded to one library in North America each year.
The Anamosa State Penitentiary, currently a medium/maximum security facility, will be changed to a strictly medium security facility, according to a Friday news release from the Iowa Department of Corrections.
Through the end of September, the University of Iowa had withdrawn nearly $41 million from an endowment fund it created in 2020 with $985.9 million the campus received as part of a public-private partnership for the operation of its sprawling utilities system.
“He was an amazing father and brother and husband and cousin and best friend of many people,” Bridgette Vascik said of her husband. He was “honest, loving, dependable ... positive, supporting.”
Unlike the public ceremony that marked Gov. Kim Reynolds’ signing of a private school funding bill last month, the bill that increases funding to Iowa’s public schools was signed in private on Tuesday.
Iowa lawmakers Tuesday advanced a bill eliminating reporting requirements and other regulations on public K-12 schools.
Back from a tour of the San Diego-Mexico border and meetings with Mexican officials, Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst on Tuesday called on Democratic President Joe Biden to crack down of the flow of fentanyl entering the United States.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to up to 25 years for assaulting his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend with a baseball bat and other charges.
The lawyers said their client, Arthur Flowers, doesn’t trust them. He’s accused in the 2022 slaying of Emily Leonard, and his trial remains set to start next Tuesday.
Historic buildings in Mount Vernon, Vinton and North Liberty also make the list.
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