Cedar Rapids IA

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A former Cedar Rapids resident was sentenced to prison for identity theft. Shango Johnson, 35, of Chicago, pled guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft. Johnson took a fake check of $9,634 claimed to be drawn from a Chicago law firm’s account, stating it...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - A man has been arrested after threatening to kill a family at an Iowa City playground Sunday. At approximately 9:40 p.m., 57-year-old Charles Annis approached a family at a playground in the Pedestrian Mall. Annis told the family, including their 3-year-old daughter, that he was...

Note: I speak for myself and not as a representative of the University of Iowa. Sometimes changing with changing times is a mistake. At a meeting on June 11, the Board of Regents (BOR) of Iowa’s public universities gave first reading to proposed policy 3.23, a policy that would prohibit faculty members from covering...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - Cities across eastern Iowa are seeing higher-than-normal levels of nitrate in the water. In Des Moines, the problem’s gotten so bad that lawn watering has been prohibited. But cities like Cedar Rapids and Iowa city have stayed relatively unfazed. “Nitrates are a dissolved ion.”...

MARION, Iowa (KCRG) - A Marion woman has been sentenced to federal prison for stealing over $25,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA). The stolen funds were part of a federal benefits program meant to support victims of the COVID-19 pandemic and the...

MARION, Iowa (KCRG) - In just three days, eastern Iowans can legally shoot off fireworks. A new law going into effect Tuesday means cities and counties can no longer block people from shooting off fireworks from their properties on the 3rd and 4th of July. Previously, cities and counties made...

WATERLOO, Iowa (KCRG) – The City of Waterloo has finished a million dollar sewer project decades ahead of schedule. The city entered an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Iowa in 2015. The city invested more than $100 million for the project. The project was expected to take up to...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (Iowa's News Now) — An Iowa city man was arrested Saturday after allegedly threatening to kill a family at a local park. According to a criminal complaint, Charles Annis approached a family at the playground at the Ped Mall in Iowa City around 9:40 p.m. The...

In the summer of 1937, something remarka b le happened in Cedar Rapids. At the third anniversary celebration of the nation’s first purpose-built mosque — now known as the Mother Mosque of America — Iowa Secretary of State Robert E. O’Brian gave the keynote address. He spoke in praise of religious diversity and lauded...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A Davenport man has been arrested in connection to repeated burglaries in southeast Cedar Rapids. Officers located 23-year-old Alexander Jessop near 34th Street SE and Random Road SE last Monday. Police stopped Jessop at approximately 2:43 a.m. on June 23. Jessop attempted to run from...