Virus cases have slightly increased
116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Virus cases have slightly increased
City also wants to build fourth fire station
The council decided on Tuesday to have applications due Jan. 3 with the selection made at the Jan. 10 council meeting. Iowa City residents can petition for a special election.
An autopsy showed Tuesday that Michael Valentine was shot five times and died from multiple gunshot injuries. Walker told police he wasn’t at the club that night and denied knowing Valentine.
As manager of Habitat for Humanity’s The ReStore Rachel Bromann knows that first hand because every donation and sale helps fund the cost of someone’s new home.
The Iowa Organic Association will hold its annual meeting Dec. 1 in Marion with guest speakers Angela Tedesco, author of “Finding Turtle Farm: My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community Supported Agriculture,” and Dr. Andy Nish, medical director of the John Stoddard Cancer Center.
After shedding students annually for more than a decade – a post-recession trend aggravated by the pandemic – Iowa’s 15 community colleges this fall recorded their first collective enrollment uptick since 2010: a half percentage point bump, pushing the student tally to 82,251.
Tuesday night’s announcement comes just a week after an underwhelming midterm showing for Republicans.
The former president is still popular with the GOP base. But other Republicans, including former Vice President Mike Pence, are taking increasingly public steps toward campaigns of their own, raising the prospect that Trump will have to navigate a competitive GOP primary. He’s also launching his candidacy amid a series of escalating criminal investigations, including several that could lead to indictments.
A recount of absentee ballots was underway Tuesday in Scott County after a 470-vote discrepancy in absentee totals was found last week.
Dimione Walker denied to police that he was the man in surveillance video of the fatal shooting of Michael Valentine in April inside the Taboo club in Cedar Rapids. He also denied knowing Valentine or shooting him in self-defense.
Follow Gazette Reporter Trish Mehaffey’s live coverage of the trial Tuesday.
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