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Downtown Cedar Rapids trees removed, just before Arbor Day

CEDAR RAPIDS – The timing wasn’t exactly ideal. Almost a dozen trees were cut down Thursday morning in downtown Cedar Rapids as part of a tree replacement program. Pam Hinman, spokeswoman for the... »

Medical condition causes crash on Highway 30

  CEDAR RAPIDS – Police say a medical condition caused a crash Thursday on Highway 30. Emergency crews responded to the crash along Highway 30 between the I-380 and Bowling Street... »

2 more people charged in Cedar Rapids shootings

 Two additional people were charged Thursday with robbery and attempted murder and are being held on hefty bonds of $1.1 million in last week’s shooting at Kirkwood Court Apartments. Raymond... »

CorridorWorks Career Fair today at Kirkwood

CEDAR RAPIDS — More than 75 local and regional employers will have representatives at today’s CorridorWorks Career Fair in the Michael J. Gould Recreation Center on the Cedar Rapids campus of... »

Urban farm brings fresh vegetables front and center

CEDAR RAPIDS — First-of-the-season radishes are about to come out of the ground in the Time Check neighborhood, proof of the promise of a new day for a riverside spot largely destroyed in the Floods... »

Two additional arrests made in Kirkwood Court shooting

  CEDAR RAPIDS -Two additional people were arrested Wednesday in last week’s Kirkwood Court Apartment shooting stemming from a robbery. One of the men with a gunshot wound from the... »

Eastern Iowa schools continue to top advanced placement index

Iowa City and Cedar Rapids high schools continue to rank among the top in the state for offering Advanced Placement classes. The Iowa AP Index, compiled by the Belin-Blank Center at the University of... »

Man on sex offender registry accused of soliciting boys in Cedar Rapids

Police said two young brothers did what they were supposed to when a man on the sex offender registry approached them at a Cedar Rapids motel. Scott A. Share, 41, address unknown, has been charged... »

‘We’re at the end’ on sales tax decisions

    CEDAR RAPIDS — Without comment or mention that the matter was on its agenda, the nine-member City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved how it will spend most of the remaining... »

Interim chief updates council on shootings

  CEDAR RAPIDS — Four shootings here in less than a month, with several people injured and one dead, prompted City Manager Jeff Pomeranz to call on Interim Police Chief Tom Jonker to make a... »

Police: Arrest made in Kirkwood Court shootings

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – A man was arrested and charged in connection with Friday’s shootings at the Kirkwood Court Apartments, police said. Teran Huff, 25, of Des Moines, was charged with... »

Majority of Polk students headed to Arthur, Johnson, Taylor and Garfield

  CEDAR RAPIDS — The bulk of students currently attending Polk Elementary aren’t going far next year. Families at the closing Cedar Rapids school were given a choice of 15 other schools... »

Robbery is C.R. man’s last straw

  CEDAR RAPIDS — The burly man busted through the screen door, grabbed Dino Woods around the neck and placed something cold and metallic against the back of his head, while a woman looked for... »

Cedar Rapids man charged in motorcycle fatality

Jagger Glubka has been cited for failing to yield to a motorcycle in the accident that killed the cycle’s rider, Marion police said. Glubka, 18, of Cedar Rapids, was driving west on Hennessey... »

Police say Cedar Rapids man died in fall from Ames balcony

Ames police have released the name of a man who died in a fall from a four-story balcony at an apartment complex over the weekend. Police say 21-year Mitchell Odell, of Cedar Rapids, went to Ames... »

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