Adam Carros
News Director
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Adam's career in journalism started with his dad, Mark. He was a News Director at several TV and radio newsrooms and exposed Adam to broadcast journalism.
Adam graduated from the prestigious University of Missouri School of Journalism. While there, Adam worked at KOMU, the university-operated NBC affiliate, in several roles: producer, reporter, anchor, live truck operator, photographer and more. While in college, Adam also interned at WSYR, the ABC affiliate in Syracuse, New York.
After graduation, Adam worked as a producer at KWWL in Waterloo, Iowa, helping lead coverage of the Flood of 2008 and the 2008 election cycle. Adam started at KCRG-TV9 during the spring of 2009 as a producer. He then took a position with The Gazette as content manager, overseeing a team of 25 print reporters in a conjoined newsroom with KCRG-TV9. Adam then took over as News Director of KCRG-TV9 in 2012, a position he has held ever since.
Adam now lives in Hiawatha with his wife, two kids and dog, Jovi. In his free time, Adam enjoys watching any sports event, playing golf, and consuming information any way he can get it.
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 12:04 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
Iowa City opted to keep one of the most banned books in the country in its school libraries even as Gov. Reynolds prepares to ban it and many other books from schools across the state.
Updated: May. 12, 2023 at 9:16 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
In dismissing an appeal from the Governor Reynolds Administration, the Iowa Supreme Court declined to decide whether Iowa Medicaid is required to cover gender reassignment surgeries.
Updated: May. 12, 2023 at 8:34 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
A class action lawsuit accuses Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds of violating state law and depriving up to 55,000 Iowans of “life-sustaining benefits”.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2023 at 9:26 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
The Court states timeliness is a factor in responding to open records requests to meet the stated purpose of the law for to “encourage the ‘free and open examination of public records.’”
Updated: Apr. 4, 2023 at 1:24 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
Clark is the first Hawkeye ever to win this national award with a ceremony on Friday.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2023 at 1:12 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
A water main break led to dead trout and other fish in a Cedar Rapids creek.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2023 at 1:02 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
Porcupines are not native to Iowa but sometimes wander in from neighboring states like Minnesota and South Dakota.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2023 at 12:42 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity is asking for help after last Friday’s tornadoes and severe storms destroyed its warehouse in Iowa City.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2023 at 12:27 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
Bernie Wyatt, a former Hawkeye Football Coach and Most Valuable Player, has died at the age of 84.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2023 at 9:28 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
An Iowa couple is suing C6 Zero, the company that operated a Marengo plant where an explosion last year injured 9 workers.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 1:16 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
Employees at a downtown Iowa City location have become the first in Iowa to start the process to form a union, part of a growing trend for Starbucks nationwide.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 4:23 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
The Governor had signed a $50 million contract without an open bid process and had to repay COVID-19 funds misused to pay for the project.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 3:47 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
The new superintendent is able to start early after resigning in December from her previous position in a Nebraska school district.
Updated: Mar. 17, 2023 at 5:25 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
Dubuque’s City Council on Monday is expected to formally hire a new management firm to run its city-owned Grand River Convention Center starting in April.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 1:25 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
Several schools have posed bonds to voters to build or renovate schools and several cities have impactful issues up for a vote, too.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 9:29 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
Gary Barta and the University of Iowa Athletic Department are requesting a state panel approve a $7 million settlement, including $2 million from the state general fund, to settle a discrimination lawsuit from Black former football players.
Updated: Mar. 1, 2023 at 3:07 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
Iowa politicians praised a move by the Environmental Protection Agency to allow year-round sales of E-15 blended ethanol gasoline but also criticized a delay in the move and implementation.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 3:57 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
Two executives who defrauded a bank after putting on a failed festival that bankrupted Go Cedar Rapids have their sentencing dates set.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 2:54 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
UIHC has acknowledged its website is down Tuesday afternoon and its IT staff is investigating the cause but could not confirm whether it was the result of a cyber attack.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 11:12 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
Iowa set a record for a third straight year for enrollments in the Healthcare Marketplace under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 10:32 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
Days after an initial request for information, the Iowa Department of Corrections confirmed a roughly week-long lockdown at Anamosa State Penitentiary but is declining to give any other specifics.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 1:09 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
The artist who made a sculpture An artist will pay to remove her sculpture from the Hotel at Kirkwood Community College after she sued claiming the college had mutilated it.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 4:33 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
Police arrested a suspect in the shooting on Iowa City’s Ped Mall, saying he fired at someone at point-blank range.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 12:40 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
Nearly 90 people have signed up to speak for and against Governor Reynolds’ School Voucher plan at a public hearing Tuesday.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 10:25 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
The intruder police say was shot and killed last week inside a Monticello home had previously lived in the home with a longtime girlfriend who had recently accused him of domestic abuse in court filings.
Updated: Dec. 31, 2022 at 9:44 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
An attorney representing the owner of the Hamburg Inn No. 2 in Iowa City says the iconic restaurant and political icon will not close in a week, despite statements from managers and employees.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 9:40 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
The Animal Rescue League of Iowa says someone tied up and abandoned a dog outside the Des Moines airport this week because it wasn’t allowed on their flight.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 9:24 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
Firefighters say they found thick smoke coming from the home and had to douse the flames before firefighters could get inside to fully extinguish the fire.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 4:24 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
The director of a farm animal rescue in Springville says recovery from a fire won’t be able to begin until Tuesday because of the Christmas holiday.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 2:33 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
Firefighters were able to revive a cat found after a house fire the overnight after Christmas.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 12:03 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
Dubuque’s city council is set to remove job requirements and alter its commitments to support businesses developing the Roshek Building in downtown.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 11:44 AM CST
|By Adam Carros
After Dubuque’s Historic Preservation Commission blocked plans for a daycare that would require tearing down a former Knights of Columbus building, Dubuque’s City Manager is looking to remove the area from the downtown historic conservation district.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 3:46 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
With October’s jobs report, Iowa Workforce Development announced Wednesday the state has “overcome” the jobs lost during the shutdowns of the Pandemic despite the state’s total employment still lagging behind March 2020 levels.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 12:46 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
In a signal Iowa Republicans will look to implement a school voucher system in Iowa, a new Iowa House committee will tackle “significant reforms to our educational system”.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 12:27 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
The interim Superintendent faces a challenge to carry on the $312 million bond proposal of his predecessor as more questions emerge on the plan with a deadline looming.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 12:26 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
Sidewalk cafes may start showing up in more parts of Iowa City next Spring.
Updated: Nov. 11, 2022 at 12:09 PM CST
|By Adam Carros
Iowa labor leaders and the head of the Iowa National Guard say Union Pacific may be violating a state law by denying Veterans Day holiday requests for veterans.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 at 11:39 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
“Overdue fines do not work,” the report from library staff released Monday states.
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 at 1:43 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
Court documents claimed financial issues may have been the motive for the murder in 2019.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 11:05 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
The zoo will begin a naming contest and open bids to be the first to see the baby giraffe.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 10:41 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
A doctor has ruled a Cedar Rapids man accused of beating a woman to death as incompetent to stand trial.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 10:07 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
Protests planned for Thursday evening are on hold with the family getting a chance to see police video of the fatal shooting of William Rich.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 8:50 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
A federal judge has formally approved a settlement and dismissed a lawsuit former Flexsteel employees filed against the company when it shut down plants in Dubuque and Mississippi during the pandemic.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 9:26 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
A criminal complaint against one of two men charged in the mass shooting at Taboo night club in Cedar Rapids says video showed him fatally shooting a man at point blank range.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2022 at 6:18 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
One motorcyclist is dead and another is hurt after crashing in Cedar County on Sunday.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2022 at 2:35 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
A bird strike caused a passenger jet to have to abort a landing and declare an emergency landing Sunday night at the Dubuque Regional Airport.
Updated: Aug. 23, 2022 at 4:14 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
The Cedar Rapids Community School District plans to ask voters to approve the largest school bond in state history: $312 million dollars to pay for a comprehensive plan to renovate, replace and redesign its middle and high schools.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 3:09 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros and Ethan Stein
A leaked image sent to TV9 shows a ransomware notice on a Linn-Mar School District warning "all your files have been encrypted by Vice Society”.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 1:47 PM CDT
|By Adam Carros
A group representing Linn-Mar parents is suing the school district arguing its transgender student policy approved this year violates the constitutional rights of parents and students.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 10:28 AM CDT
|By Adam Carros
The newly elected chair of Iowa City’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is facing calls for removal after the leak of a podcast where she called other Black leaders in Iowa City “coons”.
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