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Join members of the Cedar Rapids Police Department for a night of fun and safety at “Badge Walk” at 6 p.m. today at Noelridge Park. This fun run/walk event will focus on safety as a walker or runner.

The Cedar Rapids Fire Department seeks input as part of its five-year strategic plan at a public forum at Central Fire Station on Thursday. Senior command staff members plan to engage one-on-one with participants, listen to ideas and, if possible, get written input that will be used as material to drive the strategic plan.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An 18-year-old student who was shot in the head in a shooting outside a

Cedar Rapids is once again fighting against Iowa lawmakers’ attempts to regulate or ban the use of automated traffic enforcement cameras. Have the devices reduced collisions in the city?

One person died and two others were treated after being exposed last week to carbon monoxide in a Waucoma home, the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.

Residents of Geneva Tower, an apartment building that houses seniors and adults with disabilities in southeast Cedar Rapids, eager to return home after being displaced by a fire early Sunday morning.

Solon residents approved an extension and expansion of the city’s local-option sales tax in November. The main reason voters were asked to consider the expansion was a new $4.2 million fire station.

If proper CPR is started immediately on someone experiencing a heart attack or injury that stops their blood flow, the odds of a positive outcome are increased about 10-fold. But it often takes longer than five minutes for paramedics to arrive at a scene, so class organizers are hoping to have more community members trained in CPR and ready to act.

The incident occurred on a day that an anonymous, nationwide threat against schools called Friday “American School Shooting Day.”

As of Friday, Iowa’s traffic death count stood at 312, which officials with the state Department of Transportation said outpaced the death toll for that same date in the four previous years.

Two Iowa State University crew club members were participating in their first practice on the water when they drowned in March after their boat capsized in strong winds, according to newly released investigative findings.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department says two individuals have non-life threatening injuries following what appears to be a targeted shooting Friday night. No arrests have been made.

Linn County Public Health has been awarded a $1.25 million five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address violence impacting adolescents and teens in the community.

An Illinois man faces a series of charges, including eluding police and drunken-driving, after police allege he crashed his car onto the lawn of the University of Iowa President’s Residence early Saturday after a short high-speed chase.

According to the Cedar Rapids Fire Department, the man was thrown from the tube as he was being towed and struck a boat.