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JACKSON COUNTY – Law enforcement officers found several items used to make methamphetamine in a house north of Sabula, Iowa, Tuesday. According to a news release, officers found the items when they executed a search warrant Tuesday at 9619 495th Ave., the residence of Robert McClain, 44. McClain is being held at the Clinton County [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Recycling glass in Cedar Rapids and the rest of Linn County just got a little easier, officials say. According to a news release Tuesday, residents no longer have to sort clear and colored glass into different buckets. Instead, locals can start setting mixed glass out for collection effective immediately. The change comes [...]

JO DAVIESS COUNTY, ILL. – Several students were transported to nearby hospitals after a school bus driver lost control, went off the roadway, and hit a culvert in northwest Illinois Tuesday morning. According to the Jo Daviess County Sheriff’s Office, Alois Bilgri, 75, was traveling northbound on W Stagecoach Trail northeast of W Miller Ridge [...]

Updated with bond information at 5:15 p.m. CEDAR RAPIDS – A Marion man was charged with attempted murder Tuesday in connection with a September stabbing incident. According to Cedar Rapids police, officers arrested 28-year-old Jason Morris Tuesday at his Marion home, 1764 Blackhawk Dr., without incident. He was transported to the Linn County Jail and has [...]

WELLMAN – A Wellman woman was injured after her car struck a tree Friday night. According to the Iowa State Patrol, Everette Haines, 24, was driving a Chevy truck northbound on 110th St. less than a mile east of Ivy Ave., when she failed to negotiate a curve, left the roadway, and hit a tree. [...]

PALO – Numerous agencies responded to a barn fire in Palo Saturday evening. According to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office, the fire was reported at 5:52 p.m. at 4410 Lone Tree Rd. – between Covington Rd. and Young Rd. No people or livestock were in the barn at the time of the fire, and the [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Police said charges are pending following an early morning crash Saturday. At about 3 a.m., a four-door sedan crashed into a home on the 100 block of Brentwood Dr. NE. Two people were inside the vehicle, and had to be removed by rescue crews. Four residents, including two children, were inside the home at [...]

PALO – A 13-year-old boy was injured after being struck by a car Friday night. According to the Linn County Sheriff’s office, Samantha Eggers, 25, of Cedar Rapids, was driving westbound on Blairs Ferry Rd. when she struck the 13-year-old male who was walking in the roadway about a quarter mile west of Palo Marsh [...]

UPDATED: 1:11pm Monday with court information from over the weekend. IOWA CITY – An Iowa City mother turned herself in Friday for child endangerment charges after doctors discovered her 22-month-old child had a blood-alcohol level of .097.  The 45-pound child had a level that was over the .08 level for an adult to be found [...]

The boil order for Wellman residents’ tap water is over, officials said Friday. According to a press release, two water tests confirmed Wellman tap water is safe to use for all purposes. Officials issued the boil water advisory Tuesday after a major water main broke that afternoon at the intersection of 8th Ave. and 7th [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – The “fight” to save Polk Elementary school is not over, parents and community members say. A group of more than 25 people met Thursday night at the Mound View Neighborhood Association meeting, 1700 B Ave. NE, to discuss the future of Polk Elementary and what they can do to keep it open. [...]

Updated with City Carton Inc. information at 4 p.m. CEDAR RAPIDS – A one-vehicle accident involving a dump truck caused more than $16,000 in damages and shut down power to a recycling center after it struck a utility pole, fire hydrant, and phone box this morning. According to Sgt. Cristy Hamblin, Steven Brown, 38, of Cedar [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – A man was injured after being struck by his own, unoccupied car in the Heinz parking lot Wednesday night. According to police, the Heinz employee started his red GMC Jimmy, then left the vehicle to go back inside quickly at 4601 C St. SW. As he was walking to the entrance, he realized [...]

Officials turned Wellman water back on at around 7:30 p.m. last night, and a boil order is still in effect. The water service was turned off Tuesday after 1 p.m. when a major water main broke at the intersection of 8th Ave. and 7th St. Officials could not be reached for an update Tuesday night, [...]

Updated at 4:25 p.m. with contributed statements from Brian Terrell. An Iowa man is among six U.S. citizens reportedly arrested in Bahrain today during protests. According to a Voices for Creative Nonviolence press release , Brian Terrell, of Maloy, was arrested by Bahraini security in Manama Tuesday as he participated in a peaceful protest on the one year [...]

Family Leader President Bob Vander Plaats urged Gov. Terry Branstad to remove his title from the upcoming Iowa Governor’s Conference on LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning) Youth in an open letter Tuesday, and invited Branstad to instead partner with his socially conservative group in hosting a more “comprehensive” anti-bullying conference. Vander Plaats wrote in the letter that the Family Leader opposes [...]

Updated 5:22 p.m. Wellman residents are without water this afternoon after a major water main broke Tuesday. According to city officials, the break occurred at the intersection of 8th Ave. and 7th St. The street is closed off for repairs. Water was shut off after 1 p.m. Tuesday, a press release said, affecting the majority of [...]

IOWA CITY – Iowa City police seized three handguns and charged five people after responding to a report of shots fired at the Caliente Night Club and Bar early Saturday morning. According to a press release, officers were investigating noise complaints at the club, 171 Hwy 1 W., when three gunshots were fired at about [...]

WELLMAN –  Julie and Mickey Murray “lived every day with passion,” family said. That passion, they say, touched countless other lives. And on Saturday, that fact manifested itself in an outpouring of community support as more than 1,000 people filled the chairs, bleachers, and back wall of the Mid-Prairie High School gymnasium to honor the [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – A family of five and their live-in friend are displaced after a Saturday morning house fire ravaged their home. According to a news release, two boys, age six and seven, noticed the fire in their home at 1227 Belmont Parkway NW shortly before 10:30 a.m. The boys grabbed one of their dogs, [...]