Johnson County News

A 50-year-old Iowa City man is in the Johnson County Jail this morning on felony charges after police found more than 10 pounds of marijuana in his house, just east of downtown.

A couple has been arrested on suspicion of stealing jewelry belonging to an Iowa City man's deceased wife and then pawning it to help pay rent.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Johnson County Board of Supervisors is going back to the drawing board to fix immediate safety and security needs at the jail and courthouse after a $43.5 million bond issue for the justice center failed, for the second time, last week.

Iowa City and Cedar Rapids are now considered a combined statistical area for the Creative Corridor.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - A 61-year-old Iowa City man has been accused of robbing a boy who was looking for lawns to mow.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa - "We interrupt our lives sometimes to try to do something for the country," Rand Paul tells a group of Iowa Republicans gathered in the kitchen of a Cedar Rapids home.

He loves filibusters, small government, and Tea Parties. And if his dad's pals have any say, he'll be president in 2016.

Language in a large appropriations bill approved by the Iowa Senate could give Johnson County more freedom in borrowing money to put toward jail and courthouse improvements.

With the weather starting to turn and summer right around the corner, one Coralville man is accused of trying to take advantage.

Spectators photograph the historic Althea Sherman chimney swift tower as a crane lowers it Wednesday onto a foundation built for it at the Bickett-Rate Preserve near Buchanan in Cedar County.

Voters are weighing in on a $43.5 million dollar bond issue that would address current safety and space concerns.

For the sixth year in a row construction crews have returned to Interstate 80 in Johnson County.

The Iowa City Press -Citizen says the woman told officers early Sunday morning that her attacker was the man she lived with, the father of her child.

Shortly before 2 p.m. Monday, the Johnson County Hazardous Materials Response Team responded to Mayflower Residence Hall in Iowa City along with the Iowa City Fire Department.

An arrest is merely an accusation. All suspects should be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Now at more than three years since the Cedar Rapids traffic cameras first went live, some elements remain true year after year.

Johnson County desperately needs to upgrade the quality of our justice infrastructure.

Is the proposed Johnson County Justice Center a monument to excess or exactly what we need? Let's start with what we can all agree on.

Friday's Iowa Supreme Court decision to recognize both lesbian parents on state birth certificates had special meaning for one Johnson County couple.

Jose Luis Avalos-Covarrubias, 21, of 808 Oakcrest Street Apt. No. 3, was arrested following an incident early Sunday morning at the residence the couple shares.