It’s the season for acorn and butternut squash. Whitney Hemmer has creative ways to add them to your favorite meals in today’s Fareway Cooking Segment.
Spencer Petras’s 2-yard touchdown run with 2:58 left gave 17th-ranked Iowa its first lead and the Hawkeyes came back from a 15-point deficit in the third quarter to beat Nebraska 28-21.
A U.S. Marine Sergeant and Waterloo-native received a medal Wednesday for saving a child he found struggling to stay above rising water levels in a drainage canal earlier this year.
Cedar Rapids police have shut down Highway 30 eastbound between Edgewood Road and 6th Street Southwest after a crash that left one person with serious injuries early Thursday morning.
Dr. Tony Myers, vice president of system quality, risk and medical affairs with Mercy Medical Center, says the hospital was seeing 20-30% of COVID-19 hospitalizations be fully-vaccinated people. In the last 10-15 days, those numbers have gone down to 5-10%, and he credits boosters shots.
Third grade teachers at St. Matthew Catholic School read “Balloons Over Broadway” by Melissa Sweet to their classes, then designed a project for students to make, inspired by the famous balloons themselves.
On Tuesday a judge reversed the District Court’s decision to allow the city council of Cedar Rapids to rezone a property in the Rompot neighborhood to allow for industrial use.
A 20-year-old man from Cedar Rapids has been charged with attempted murder in the July shooting that took place in the 1200 block of 10th Street Northwest.
Hunter Companies, based in Cedar Rapids, was previously under contract to purchase and redevelop the 51-acre property at corner of Edgewood Road NE and 42nd Street NE. The plan was for a mixed-use development.
The bill gives Iowa $3.4 billion to repair highways, $482 million to repair bridges, $638 Million to improve water infrastructure, $300 million for public transportation,$120 million to upgrade airports and at least $100 million to expand broadband in the state.
Cedar Rapids mother, Anquinette Mcgee says she found out her 12-year-old daughter was being bullied and enduring racist language at school by reading the letter she wrote to Santa.
Brown admitted that he had previous convictions for unauthorized possession of an offensive weapon in 1995, and possession of a firearm by a felon in 1996.
Both students and parents said chants of “White Power” occur in the school often and they’ve seen posts on social media about people bringing weapons to school.
The Mount Vernon High School marching band will perform a special parade Monday night ahead of its trip to Chicago to perform in the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
