Brian Tabick
Reporter
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Brian Tabick joined the KCRG-TV9 News team in June 2019.
Prior to coming to KCRG-TV9, Brian spent five years covering news in north-central Iowa at Mason City's KIMT-TV.
Brian graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2013 with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. He grew up in Algonquin, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
Brian is a very big Chicago Cubs baseball fan and played baseball himself for around 15 years.
If you want to leave Brian a tip you can email him at brian.tabick@kcrg.com.
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Events held across eastern Iowa honored first responders and lessons learned on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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20 years after 9/11, one teacher at Luther College said he worries about how it was taught to students born just before, or even after, the event happened.
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KCRG-TV9's Brian Tabick talked to a professor at Luther College in Decorah on what he makes sure is highlighted when teaching the events to his students.
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A small group of family and friends gathered in front of the Johnson County Courthouse Thursday holding signs with the name Makena.
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Johnson County Public Health started to look at increasing vaccinations in the 12 to 25 age range by starting a Greek life vaccine challenge.
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RISE program forms new partnership to help clients transitioning from incarceration
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Mud, smoking engines, and leaking vehicles are all part of the demolition derby experience, but a 74-year-old behind the wheel is something you don’t see every day.
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The postcards are meant to attract older people, who are more likely to use the postal system, to send a postcard to younger, unvaccinated friends and family.
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KCRG-TV9's Brian Tabick is looking into how Johnson County Public Health is encouraging more people to get a shot through a kinder message.
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Washington Chamber of Commerce helps with testing within the community
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Hundreds of protestors took to the University of Iowa President’s house for the second night of protesting on Wednesday in hopes of removing the Phi Delta Gamma fraternity from campus.
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SYC 8 Days of Hope helps clear trees for people in need
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Iowa’s First District Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson formally announced Saturday she would run for re-election.
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Hundreds of employees in the UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s healthcare system lined up to protest a vaccine mandate the health system put in place for its workers.
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Experts said Homeowners experience storm damage from derecho
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Voters in Linn County will be asked, again, whether they want gambling in the area as a group has formed to make a third pitch to the community for approval.
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Fayette County Emergency Management estimated that winds ranged from 90 to 100 mph in the area, peeling back the roof on the auto supply store near downtown.
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KCRG-TV9's Brian Tabick reports from Oelwein, one of the locations to receive storm damage on Tuesday.
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KCRG-TV9's Brian Tabick reports from Oelwein on damage from Tuesday's severe storms.
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Teachers and students took part in a documentary being produced by a former Waterloo Schools history teacher in the hopes of emboldening educators to teach the truth.
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A family on the Southwest side of Cedar Rapids handed out backpacks and cooked free meals on Saturday ahead of the start of school.
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Johnson County Health Department: “We know mask requirements work”
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A concert Saturday night in North Liberty raised money for the Iowa City Community School District’s music programs.
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Mayor Teague made it very clear: not wearing a face covering while out in public was breaking his order, but he added that there wasn’t a punishment for violators.
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The city of Cedar Rapids said it had identified 500 sidewalks, driveways, and roads damaged by the derecho.
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A Cedar Rapids nonprofit group that helps thousands of foster children across Iowa was moving locations this week.
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Dozens of people remembered the August 2020 derecho by taking broken pieces of trees and turning them into artwork on Tuesday evening.
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Annual White Coat Ceremony made virtual on short notice
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Band that lost Uptown Friday Night gig lands new show at Local Craft Ale House
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About 30 people protested in Iowa City on Wednesday in order to pressure the city and Johnson County to spend its millions in federal pandemic money on those who might have missed out.
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About 30,000 University of Iowa students will return to classes in less than two weeks on August 23, and some students are urging the school’s leaders to do more to stop the spread of COVID-19.
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A year after the storm, and a Marion business owner moved her business to Cedar Rapids after her storefront was destroyed.
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A mobile home park in Benton County took on so much damage in the derecho on August 10, 2020, nearly everyone living there still is not back in their homes.
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Hundreds of people filled Green Square in downtown Cedar Rapids to play games, paint their faces, and have a good time while celebrating the community’s strength to overcome the August 10 derecho.
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Parents have started learning what the next school year might look like as schools started to build around the state guidelines that have been released.
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Linn County will require face masks inside all county facilities, regardless of vaccination status, beginning on August 9.
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Linn County Public Health wants people to know where they can get a take-home COVID-19 test kit as the number of COVID-19 cases rises.
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The Cedar Rapids Jaycee’s made a social media post on Tuesday canceling its Uptown Friday Night event.
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Getting to see the equipment up close and the faces of first responders was why Andrew Begley, of Marion, his family, and so many others attended National Night out events.
Attorneys from Iowa Legal Aid are set up across the state to, at the very least, give advice to people facing evictions. In most cases, those attorneys are able to represent the tenant at their upcoming eviction hearing.
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Dozens of people headed to Wellington Park Saturday to grab a bite to eat, and learn about what services Willis Dady offers to the homeless population.
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A Cedar Rapids daycare allowed parents to pick up their belongings Saturday morning after suddenly closing this week.
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Miles Davis, a Coralville man, who lives with Down syndrome checks the mail for his mom, Shelly, every day, but the letters with his name on them were always just medical bills.
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The family of Chris Bagley watched on Thursday as a guilty verdict was read in the Drew Blahnik case.
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Thousands of cyclists pedaled their way into Waterloo Wednesday morning and afternoon, exhaling with relief after a grueling hot day 4 of RAGBRAI.
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Thousands of cyclists will pedal east from Iowa Falls and into Waterloo on Wednesday, in what will likely be the most unforgiving leg of RAGBRAI 2021 due to the intense heat expected.
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A popular downtown event will take place this fall in Cedar Rapids after organizers delayed making a decision due to the ongoing pandemic.
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An art show in Amana hoped to bring artists to the small town that had never been there before.
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The downtown Iowa City block party made a comeback on Saturday night after a year off, and it was a hot one out.
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Construction creates traffic confusion