Border Patrol agents in Texas arrested three convicted felons during three separate events in less than 24 hours. Records revealed one of them was convicted of sexual abuse and burglary in Des Moines, Iowa.
Big Grove Brewery, partnered with Marion-based nonprofit Trees Forever and GreenState Credit Union, gave away more than a thousand seedlings on Thursday.
Many offices have sat basically empty for a year as employees work virtually during the pandemic. We asked several area businesses if they would return to the office as more people get vaccinated for COVID-19.
The Iowa Medical Examiners Office says a 17-year-old girl died of carbon monoxide poisoning after she helped clean a hog confinement building in Kossuth County.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the state of Iowa challenging a 2019 law that allows Medicaid to deny payment for sex reassignment surgeries for transgender residents.
A judge has declared a mistrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of an Iowa man accused of killing a woman and her two young children.
At least one person is dead after a vehicle failed to stop at a stop sign and was hit by another vehicle in Butler County, south of Clarksville on Wednesday night.
If signed into law, Senate File 546 would allow Iowa parents to legally teach their children how to drive instead of having them go through driving school.
On Tuesday, Cedar Rapids nonprofit Matthew 25 launched its million-dollar Healthy Neighborhoods campaign to fund a nonprofit grocery store and create new and refurbished housing.
Ryan Evans owns several restaurants in Cedar Rapids and Marion, including Pedaler’s Fork. He says he’s been looking to fill jobs for months. Now, they’re even offering extra incentives to get people in the door.
Congresswoman Cindy Axne, Iowa House Minority Leader Todd Prichard and Iowa Senate Minority Leader Zach Wahls recently sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney General requesting an independent investigation.
Officials say two medical staffers incorrectly administered the Pfizer vaccine to the prisoners, with the dosage exceeding the amount recommended by the manufacturer.
After 43 of Iowa’s 99 counties this week declined additional shipments of shots because of less consumer demand, Reynolds on Wednesday promoted vaccinations and said the state is concentrating efforts on trusted community leaders to help convince resistant Iowans to get the shots.
A judge has ruled that former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad does not have to testify in a long-running lawsuit brought by an investigator who was fired in 2013 shortly after filing a complaint about Branstad’s state vehicle speeding.
Officials say Michael Thomas Lang, 41, of Grundy Center, was released from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on Wednesday and transported by law enforcement to the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office, where he made his initial appearance.
Surveillance footage and a GPS tracker assisted Cedar Rapids police in recovering two stolen trucks Wednesday and arresting the two men who stole them.
