Cedar Rapids IA

The Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque has announced its plans to reorganize, with a Charles City priest reassigned to Cedar Rapids. Archbishop Thomas Zinkula says the Archdiocese will reorganize its 160 parishes serving 180,000 Catholics into 24 pastorates beginning July 14th. Catholic churches in the Charles City Area pastorate include Holy...

An new report ranked 182 major U.S. cities based on rent affordability.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A Chicago woman was sentenced to federal prison for lying to multiple government agencies to collect benefits she wasn't entitled to receive. Gladys Louise Stephenson, 48, received a 10-month prison sentence after pleading guilty in October to theft of government property, supplemental security income benefits fraud and false statement or representation.

State regulators have imposed a $3,000 fine against an Iowa City man accused of running a multimillion-dollar ring of unlicensed massage parlors in which workers were required to have sex with customers. The Iowa Board of Massage Therapy has fined Zhenshi Liu of Iowa City $2,000 for practicing massage therapy without a license on at least two occasions, plus $1,000 for employing an...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A woman from Tama was given a five-year, three-month sentence in a federal court in Cedar Rapids Tuesday for an assault charge. Ashley Thompson, 38, pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily injury on March 31. At the hearing, she admitted that she stabbed and injured another woman in the neck with a piece of wood trimming. During the...

Johnson County is being accused of negligence in a lawsuit over the alcohol-withdrawal death of a 36-year-old jail inmate. The estate of Nathaniel Davis Jr., who died in March 2024 after serving a portion of his seven-day sentence for drunken driving, is suing Johnson County and 19 individuals in U.S. District Court for the Southern […]

The Iowa City Community School District Board of Directors added an action item to its upcoming April 28 meeting to vote on whether or not to hold a closed session to discuss personnel contracts among district administrators. A closed board session is a meeting closed to the public, usually to...

NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (Iowa's News Now) — A lane is blocked on I-380 southbound due to a crash Wednesday morning. The Iowa DOT reporting a crash blocking the right lane between Exit 10 and Exit 4, near North Liberty. Traffic is backed up toward Highway 965.

Attorneys for the woman charged with killing Ashley Okland allege evidence in the case has been lost or destroyed.

Photo of tornadic storm taken near Casey’s on southwest edge of Manchester (more photos in gallery below) Tornadic storms moved through eastern Iowa on Tuesday evening, with reports of tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. The severe storms generally traveled right along the Highway 20 corridor – just as...