Mount Vernon News

Cedar Rapids, Ia. - This is Cedar Rapids, a city where nine square miles are gutted.

The Bruce Jacklin and Co. production of "Peter Pan" opened Thursday night at the Memorial Theater in Mount Vernon for the first of a four-performance run.

School board members met Friday to consider what to do with a science teacher whom investigators said preached his Christian beliefs in class and used a device to burn the image of a cross on students' arms.

President Bush was taken aback by the enormousness of flood damage he saw in Linn and Johnson counties during an aerial tour of the Corridor on Wednesday, one of his congressional escorts said.

The school board of a small central Ohio community voted Friday to fire a teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs despite staff complaints and burning the image of a cross on students' arms, ...

Mount Vernon City school board members drafted a resolution on Friday to consinder the termination an eighth grade teacher accused of burning a cross onto students' arms.

The flooding forced dozens of roads to close and some may not reopen for weeks, even months.

" Flooding continues to affect many roadways in the state, according to Iowa Department of Transportation officials.

" June 15, 2008: 6:15 p.m. - " Flooding continues to affect many roadways in the state, according to Iowa Department of Transportation officials.

A total of 3,200 homes were flooded, thousands of outages were reported, as many as 18,000 people were at risk of losing power, and dozens of flood-stranded residents were rescued by boat Thursday as Iowa's ...

A four-foot high sandbag wall stood this afternoon between Leigh Parkin's childhood home on northwest Ellis Boulevard and the raging Cedar River.

Corn plants are submerged in pools of water in a field near Highway 1 south of Mount Vernon on Sunday.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks overcame Cedar Rapids businessman Peter Teahen's local advantage in Linn County to win the Republican primary in Iowa's 2nd District by less than 100 votes Tuesday.

Mark Benesh of Mt. Vernon finishes work on a 26 foot by 20 foot reproduction of American Gothic painted on the side of a barn on Hwy.

Leslie Candy of Boston was expecting her first baby when she developed dangerously high blood pressure.

The Rev. Tom Zinkula has had a couple of career changes. After being a lawyer, he felt a calling to the priesthood.

Linda Langston, twice elected to the Linn County Board of Supervisors, is seeking reelection because she says she wants to help complete initiatives she's helped get off the ground.

The Bible battle in Mount Vernon is still raging -- and it all has to do with whether a Bible can be on a teacher's desk.

Abbi Swanson The steeple of First Presbyterian Church in Mount Vernon was destroyed in a fire started by a lightning strike shortly after midnight Monday.

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