116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401

Vanessa Miller
I’ve covered lots of beats over my decades as a reporter, and one reason I really enjoy higher education is because it touches on them all. One day I’m writing about science and interviewing University of Iowa NASA researchers, the next I’m writing about health care, or agriculture, or a new Iowa State-supported business, or athletic budgets, or criminal justice, or the Legislature and potential bills affecting Iowa’s university and college campuses. I also love that I get to investigate and dig deep on some stories, report hard news, and then also share incredible and sometimes harrowing tales of survival or discovery. When I’m not working, I’m playing with my kids or following them around to wrestling tournaments. Get the news delivered right to your inbox.
Latest Articles by Vanessa Miller
News Jun. 28, 2012 9:00 am4848d ago
IOWA CITY – The 5-year-old grandson of a Coralville woman charged with first-degree murder told investigators that his grandmother started …
News Jun. 27, 2012 4:15 pm4848d ago
IOWA CITY – A 50-year-old Iowa City woman faces a charge of vehicular homicide after police said she hit and …
News Jun. 27, 2012 7:00 am4849d ago
UPDATE: The possible conflict of interest that prosecutors are concerned might affect a 2010 first-degree murder case in Iowa City …
News Jun. 27, 2012 6:30 am4849d ago
IOWA CITY – Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness said her office only recently received a crash report from the deadly …
News Jun. 27, 2012 5:30 am4849d ago
IOWA CITY – A convicted killer will not get a new trial after the Iowa Court of Appeals on Wednesday …
News Jun. 26, 2012 11:05 am4849d ago
Another parent who lost a child in a deadly car crash in Johnson County in 2010 is suing the Wildwood …
Columns Jun. 26, 2012 6:01 am4850d ago
Growing up in heart of Chicago, David Meyers’s grandmother would pull together the leftover produce at the end of every …
News Jun. 25, 2012 4:25 pm4850d ago
The parents of a 14-year-old Clear Creek Amana High School student killed in a car accident in October have filed …
News Jun. 22, 2012 3:32 pm4853d ago
UPDATE: Iowa City police have obtained an arrest warrant for a suspect in Thursday night’s fatal shooting of 30-year-old Donell …
News Jun. 21, 2012 10:18 am4855d ago
An Aplington man found guilty of entering the bedroom of a Kalona woman in September with a rifle, camera and …
News Jun. 21, 2012 6:30 am4855d ago
On a sweltering June afternoon, dozens of Girl Scouts scamp around Maria Koschmeder’s Kids in Nature farm in rural Williamsburg, …
Jun. 20, 2012 10:33 pm4855d ago
An Iowa County jury has determined “unnecessary surveillance and harassment” by Williamsburg police hurt the Sundown Bar & Grill’s business and …
Columns Jun. 19, 2012 6:01 am4857d ago
Using her talent and training in theatrical makeup has been more difficult in Cedar Rapids than in, say, Burbank, Calif., …
News Jun. 18, 2012 11:05 am4857d ago
UPDATE: Witnesses at the Iowa City apartment complex where police say a woman died after being run over by a …
News Jun. 18, 2012 6:30 am4858d ago
NORTH LIBERTY – Riding her plastic rocking horse on Friday next to her stuffed giraffe and clad in pink cowboy …