Cedar Rapids News Archives

Getting ready to roll Bettendorf police investigate possible sex abuse found on Internet Class action lawsuit confuses QC consumers About 30 million credit card users have gotten a class action lawsuit offer in ... via WQAD-TV Moline

Alliant Energy blames snow and ice on the tracks for a train derailment near Hills in eastern Iowa. via KGAN

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Railroad crossing signals and gate arms will be installed at a rural crossing north of Cedar Rapids where a 17-year-old Cedar Rapids driver was injured after a collision with a train last ... via Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...

A Cedar Rapids middle school student who threatened to shoot students and teachers at school will have to undergo treatment. via KWWL-TV Waterloo

“It was really a great experience”

Campus Girls USA is on a hunt for the most beautiful college girls, and its photographers are coming to the University of Iowa campus. via Press-Citizen

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources believes moldy grain may have caused four geese to lose their balance and ability to fly before dying. via KWWL-TV Waterloo

“They were just spinning their tires, and they would slide sideways and end up blocking the interstate. Traffic came to a standstill in a lot of cases”

By WILLIAM PETROSKI * REGISTER STAFF WRITER * February 20, 2008 A combination of wet snow, plus 40- to 50-mph winds and extreme cold, led to a "perfect storm" that wreaked havoc on Interstate Highway 80 and ... via Des Moines Register

“We choose this approach because it is ... fair to patients, doctors and the medical malpractice industry”

The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday sent two medical malpractice lawsuits back to district court after offering a new opinion on how the statute of limitations can be interpreted. via Sioux City Journal

A federal jury in Cedar Rapids has acquitted a former Oelwein police officer of police brutality. via KWQC-TV Davenport

“As far as the mentally ill are concerned within the state system, we do have rather limited resources to try to manage and care for them. We need a lot more emphasis on funding for the care of the mentally ill”

Inmate Matthew Ward of Mason City got so depressed in December he tried to hang himself in a Fort Madison prison cell. via Des Moines Register

“This is an expensive undertaking. We understand that. But if this is what people want us to be doing to protect us from even the possibility of fraud, we are happy to do that”

By WILLIAM PETROSKI * REGISTER STAFF WRITER * February 20, 2008 Iowa Lottery players will be required to sign a lottery ticket before it's scanned to determine if it's a winner under emergency rules approved ... via Des Moines Register

Travel is still not recommended across a large part of northern and eastern Iowa as the state continues to dig out from Sunday's snowstorm. via WOI-TV West Des Moines

The House has approved a bill that bans indoor smoking in most businesses and public places but exempts casinos. via KWWL-TV Waterloo

“However, that is not the way the church operates, and as such, they are now paying the price for their inability to tell the truth and take honest actions.”

The teenager bit his lip, grinding on it until it bled. He stood in the principal's office. via Quad-City Times

Many schools in central and eastern Iowa are closed or running late and travel is not recommended on some highways as the state digs out from another blast of winter. via KWQC-TV Davenport

“We don't get grandbabies, nothing. It's hard to find a purpose”

No one was satisfied when the jury returned with a second-degree murder verdict against Luis Guzman Perez on Thursday. via The Gazette

“Hunters are talking about it, and they're not happy about it”

Department of Natural Resources welcomes it. The Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS -- Iowa's deer herd is shrinking and will reach levels sought by state wildlife officials if current trends continue. via Hawk Eye

“We were just chillin', having a good time”

The man accused of shooting to death another at a party in rural Tama County is expected to take the witness stand in his own defense this afternoon. via The Gazette

Japanese machinery maker Mitsubishi Heavy said Thursday it has picked three U.S. businesses -- including one in Iowa -- and two companies from Japan to supply major parts for its planned small jet, which ... via Chicago Tribune

The westbound lanes of Interstate 80 near the West Liberty exit were closed for several hours Wednesday afternoon following a fatal accident. via Bettendorf News

A 37-year-old rural Cedar County man who used a shotgun to club and beat his father pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of illegally possessing firearms, according to a new release issued by the U.S. ... via Quad-City Times

Activists are pushing to make flu shots mercury-free in Iowa. They want a mercury-based preservative called Thimerosal removed from flu shots. via KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids

An attorney for James Bentley says the U.S. Supreme Court should uphold a ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court that prohibits a videotaped interview with Jetseta Gage. via KCRG

A New York telecommunications company says it completed its acquisition of Iowa-based McLeodUSA on Friday in a stock deal valued at $557 million. via KWWL-TV Waterloo

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a Cedar Rapids man sentenced to 60 years in prison for attacking his girlfriend with a hammer and knife. via Quad-City Times

AMES --- The Iowa state Board of Regents this morning elected Jack Evans to serve as president pro tem, essentially second in command to the board president. via Iowa City Press-Citizen

A major winter storm that swept across Iowa is slowly heading out of the state, but it's leaving piles of snow behind. via KGAN

A middle school basketball coach accused of videotaping boys showering in a locker room is being sought on federal pornography charges. via KCRG

The state has settled a lawsuit filed by a Cedar Rapids company over the ban on TouchPlay video gaming machines. via KWQC-TV Davenport

Jury selection is under way in Cedar Rapids in the trial of a Marshalltown man accused of killing another man at a party in Tama County in 2006. via KAAL-TV Austin

The trial for a man charged with first-degree murder for a 2006 shooting in Tama is set to begin in Cedar Rapids on Monday. via KWQC-TV Davenport

An Iowa State patrol vehicle, its rear smashed, waits to be towed off the road Saturday afternoon near the 76th Ave SW bridge on Highway 380 North. via The Gazette

HERALD By John Speer, Editor and Kathy Zars, Staff Writer Jury selection is slated to begin on Monday, Feb. via Tama News-Herald

A Maryland-based company announced plans Friday to buy the Fox affiliate in Cedar Rapids for $19 million. via Indianola Record-Herald

Police here are looking for a man who robbed US Bank, 3401 Mt. Vernon Rd. SE, at around 1:05 p.m. today. via The Gazette