Adam Carros
News Director
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.
Kirk Ferentz expressed his displeasure with the timing of the announcement, relaying his desire for those types of decisions to be made in the offseason.
Scammers posing as panhandlers raising money for a child’s funeral that have been seen nationwide have now been spotted in Eastern Iowa.
The task of renaming a city park has prompted a review of policies after Dubuque’s City Council rejected the recommendation of its Parks and Recreation Commission.
One person was hurt but firefighters praised the working smoke detectors and sprinkler system for helping save lives in an Iowa City apartment fire Labor Day morning.
A lawsuit against two former University of Iowa frat members accused of raping a student during a party and then sharing pictures of the assault has been moved to Tama County due to media publicity. Meanwhile, one of those accused is suing 2 dozen people for libel and slander.
Iowa State’s Athletic Director apologized for ticketing system delays that caused long waits for people to get inside Jack Trice Stadium for Saturday’s season opener against UNI that caused some people to miss kickoff.
3 of Iowa’s 99 counties have zero approved applications to take part in the state’s first year of a school voucher program called Educational Savings Accounts, highlighting a criticism of the plan.
Hours after Republicans in the Iowa legislature passed new abortion restrictions, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU of Iowa has filed a lawsuit to block those restrictions from taking effect.
Plans for a new landmark pedestrian bridge across the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids are set to push ahead with the removal of an old railroad bridge currently in the way.
The agreement will essentially ear-mark city-owned land for the development of an eventual Cedar Rapids Casino, despite an ongoing state moratorium and licensing uncertainty.
The judge sentenced Miller to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 35 years.
Police say a man was shot multiple times in the early hours of Fourth of July in Iowa City.
A committee with the Democratic Party has given Iowa more time to adjust its plan for the 2024 Caucuses to meet national standards as Iowa fights to stay at the top of the Presidential nominating process.
The number of Iowans applying for an Educational Savings Account under Iowa’s new school voucher program has surpassed projections, raising questions on the costs to state taxpayers and local school districts.
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.
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.
A class action lawsuit accuses Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds of violating state law and depriving up to 55,000 Iowans of “life-sustaining benefits”.
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.’”
Clark is the first Hawkeye ever to win this national award with a ceremony on Friday.
A water main break led to dead trout and other fish in a Cedar Rapids creek.
Porcupines are not native to Iowa but sometimes wander in from neighboring states like Minnesota and South Dakota.
Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity is asking for help after last Friday’s tornadoes and severe storms destroyed its warehouse in Iowa City.
Bernie Wyatt, a former Hawkeye Football Coach and Most Valuable Player, has died at the age of 84.
An Iowa couple is suing C6 Zero, the company that operated a Marengo plant where an explosion last year injured 9 workers.
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.
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.
The new superintendent is able to start early after resigning in December from her previous position in a Nebraska school district.
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.
Several schools have posed bonds to voters to build or renovate schools and several cities have impactful issues up for a vote, too.
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.
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.
Two executives who defrauded a bank after putting on a failed festival that bankrupted Go Cedar Rapids have their sentencing dates set.
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.
Iowa set a record for a third straight year for enrollments in the Healthcare Marketplace under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
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.
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.
Police arrested a suspect in the shooting on Iowa City’s Ped Mall, saying he fired at someone at point-blank range.
Nearly 90 people have signed up to speak for and against Governor Reynolds’ School Voucher plan at a public hearing Tuesday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Firefighters were able to revive a cat found after a house fire the overnight after Christmas.
Dubuque’s city council is set to remove job requirements and alter its commitments to support businesses developing the Roshek Building in downtown.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
Sidewalk cafes may start showing up in more parts of Iowa City next Spring.
