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North Liberty Spring Cleanup Spring Cleanup Day for North Liberty Residents Saturday, April 28, 2012 7:00 AM to 11:30 AM Spring Cleanup Day is for residents of North Liberty only. Please be prepared to verify that you are a North Liberty resident with a water bill stub or driver’s license. North Liberty residents pay $.30 each month on [...]

Mayor Ron Corbett will announce a new naming rights agreement for the city’s U.S. Cellular Center at his noon-time State of City speech at The Hotel at Kirkwood Center. The new agreement is a 10-year one, which will bring in a total of $3.8 million over the period. The current deal with U.S. Cellular brings [...]

State lawmakers have approved restoring $7.2 million in state aid to counties for mental health services, a move that will reduce Linn County’s planned property tax levy by a nickel. An amendment approved by both the House and Senate would direct the money from the Economic Emergency Fund to restore the property tax relief fund, [...]

Iowa City police did not find an armed man in City Park after a quick search Wednesday morning.  The search had been prompted by a call from Washington County alerting the Iowa City police about a missing person who was possibly armed and in the park.  According to police a check of the park was [...]

DES MOINES – Judgment week in the Iowa Legislature left a number of hoped-for bills in ashes on Wednesday. House subcommittees opened the day by pulling the plug on measures that would have created a crime for failing to report a missing child, mandated that employers grant up to 200 hours of unpaid leave for [...]

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All day on February 23, participating restaurants in Iowa City, Coralville and North Liberty will donate 10% of sales (excluding alcohol sales) to the Iowa City Community School District. Last year, the Foundation awarded over $77,000 in Excellence Fund grants to support programs such as School of the Wild, iPads in Hands, The Symphony Goes to School [...]

Let Me In By Della Nuno Vampires are a phase for teenagers-and god knows why. They’ve been around since the 1920’s, but they’ve never really gotten as much traction as they have circa 2011, when Twilight, True Blood and Vampire Diaries took the world by storm. Alas, none are as good a quality as Let Me In, a [...]

The University of Iowa sent a “Hawk Alert” text message to the campus community shortly before 10:30 Wednesday morning.  The message warned of a possible armed subject in City Park. “Report of armed subject in city park. Remain indoors and away from area,” the message read. This is the third “Hawk Alert” the University has [...]

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CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – Mercy Medical Center is pleased to announce it has earned full Chest Pain Center Accreditation with PCI from The Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC), an international not-for-profit organization committed to improving timely, quality care for cardiac patients.  The PCI designation stands for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention which means not only did Mercy meet [...]

A former University of Iowa wide receiver was arrested early this morning on suspicion of drunken driving after he told police that they “wouldn’t last a (expletive) minute in Kinnick Stadium.” Paul Allen Chaney, 24, of Iowa City, was stopped for running a red light at 1:39 a.m. near the intersection of Clinton and Burlington [...]

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Cornell’s women’s basketball team played as a confident No. 6 seed Tuesday night and secured the program’s first postseason win since 2000 with a 79-64 pasting of third-seeded Dubuque in the first round of the Iowa Conference Tournament at Stoltz Sports Center. The Rams (10-14) led by as many as 19 points in the first [...]

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CEDAR RAPIDS – Mayor Ron Corbett will give his third state of the city address Wednesday afternoon. It’s an annual luncheon held by the League of Women Voters of Cedar Rapids and Marion to keep the community involved in local government. The mayor will speak inside the ballroom at the Hotel at Kirkwood Center. He has a full [...]

AMES, Iowa – Feb. 22, 2012 – The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) is offering a parcel of land for sale in Lee County. The 51.74-acre parcel is located approximately 6 miles…
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