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CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids K9 Marco is a 9-year-old Belgian Malinois. He’s one of seven Cedar Rapids Police dogs. Marco works alongside Officer Al Fear who spoke exclusively with TV9 about Marco’s involvement in apprehending 17-year-old double murder suspect, Isaiah Sweet. Officer Fear says a sergeant spotted Sweet near the woods behind Theisen’s on [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – College Community Schools hosted an information session to explain why every high school student needs a laptop. The school district wants to give every 9th through 12th grader a school issued laptop. The plan is to order around 1,400 11-inch Macbook Air laptops. College Community has been studying the concept for three [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS -  A big brawl in Cedar Rapids Tuesday evening sends six people to jail. This happened around 7:00 PM near the corner of Jacolyn Drive and 1st Avenue Northwest outside an apartment complex. Police tell us forty to fifty people were fighting and smashing in car windows with baseball bats.  The first officer [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Oxycodone, Vicodin and Lortab. They are all heavy hitting pain killers often prescribed to someone after a surgery or serious accident. But when a pregnant woman is addicted to one of those pills, her baby will likely be as well. A study, published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association , shows [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – When this red flag is up, the guns go off. Cedar Rapids Police say they’re on target with plans to expand their shooting range practice facility located at 2727 Old River Road Southwest.  A rough estimate for the upgrade is around 1.3 million dollars.  The goal is to widen the range, add [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – What started as a discussion about public safety turned into one covering a larger issue of rental properties in Cedar Rapids. City and neighborhood leaders believe there are no consequences for landlords who take in bad tenants. They argue this is contributing to crime in the city. “The tenants literally get thrown [...]

Cedar Rapids- Doctors say dental care is always last on the to-do list for the uninsured or under-insured. In 2010, 1,400 people showed up at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids for a weekend of free dental care. Volunteer dentists performed cleanings, fillings and tooth extractions. Doctors say the event brought to light a [...]

Cedar Rapids – One of Iowa’s hometown war heroes presented a very special scholarship in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday. Hiawatha native and Medal of Honor recipient Salvatore Giunta is a 2003 graduate of Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School. In 2010, President Obama presented Giunta with the nation’s highest military decoration.  Giunta was the first living [...]

Cedar Rapids -19 shootings for 2012 in Cedar Rapids 4 of which have happened in the past two weeks. Now, two stabbings can be added to the list of recent violent crimes in Cedar Rapids this past month. On Sunday, police arrested 20-year-old Parish Harris for attempting to stab two people to death.  This happened [...]

CEDAR FALLS -  Who walks the halls of your community schools? 4,700 students are enrolled in Cedar Falls School District. Add to that number parents, visitors, and other organizations using the facilities and it’s hard to keep track. That’s why four years ago, Cedar Falls administrators decided to take an extra step toward keeping their [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Mayor Ron Corbett and City Manager Jeff Pomeranz are challenging each other to slim down. Their friendly contest started at the end of last year.  The competition is part of the city’s on-going effort to be designated a Blue Zone community. Blue Zones are selected based on a city’s overall commitment to [...]

LINN/JOHNSON COUNTY- Miscounts, recounts and missing votes plagued the 2012 Iowa republican caucus. On Wednesday, state party leaders insisted that, while there were some mix-ups during the 2012 caucus, they also did a lot right given the high voter turnout and closest finish in Iowa caucus history. Local party leaders in Linn and Johnson County [...]

IOWA CITY – Cyclone and Hawkeye fans cringed during the unveiling of the 2011 Cy-Hawk Series Trophy. Last summer, during the Iowa State Fair, the Iowa Corn Growers Association unveiled the redesigned trophy.  It featured a family, some corn, and no football. It caused such an uproar from fans that organizers, at the very last [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – A crack here or a bump there can be a nuisance for drivers.  For bicyclists though, uneven roadways can lead to injury. “We really need every part of the street to be flat and smooth ready for those riders,” said Cedar Rapids RAGBRAI Organizer, Jennifer Pickar. This June, more than 20,000 RAGBRIA [...]

LINN COUNTY – When in doubt, take the child out. Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack coined that phrase in 2000 after a case of child abuse that ended with a little girl’s death.  African American leaders in Linn County say they are unfairly targeted under this “remove first policy”. In 2008, Marlene Jessop adopted her [...]

Cedar Rapids – Washington High School’s football and track coach, Tony Lombardi, is at the center of the controversy. Parents say his coaching strategies are really bullying, harassment and physical attacks.  Several families have filed formal complaints with the school district. “F-bombs and D-bombs and everything that goes with it,” says Kathi Jensen, a parent with [...]

LINN COUNTY – Iowa may see one of its biggest years ever for state highway construction driven by lower bids from contractors and higher-than-expected state and federal funding. During an average season about $460 million is spent on Iowa highways. This year’s spending could equal the record of $600 million set in 2009, when federal [...]

CEDAR FALLS – The Gazette, Waterloo Courier, and KCRG-TV9 recently reviewed 2,000 emails and documents sent and received by University of Northern Iowa administrators regarding Malcolm Price Lab School and the UNI Museum. The document review focused on emails sent and received by President Ben Allen, Provost Gloria Gibson, and Dean of Education Dwight Watson. [...]

LISBON – Lisbon School Board members gave parents a voice on Tuesday after months of speculation surrounding accusations of hazing on the high school’s wrestling team. “If we are not moving forward, we are moving backward plain and simple,” said Board Member, Andy Sullivan.  “I refuse to let discontent or the rumor mill take down [...]

BUCHANAN COUNTY – People in Independence are helping build a dream for one deserving family. In January, we introduced you to Sue Spece and her three adult children: Jackie, Jacob and Josh. The family faces unique challenges, because all three children live with a rare form of muscular dystrophy.  The genetic disorder keeps them wheelchair [...]