Cedar Rapids News Archives

Joshua Bradshaw Police say they arrested two men - Benjamin Walker, 20, of 384 15th St.

Posted on Nov 30, 2009 by Spencer Willems . Pat Houar, 62, of Cedar Rapids, checks out a stack of books from the Cedar Rapids Public Library satellite location downtown.

A longtime small-business owner and 28-year-old investment Realtor are facing off Tuesday in a runoff election for an at-large seat on the City Council.

National trade groups may still predict a drop in total consumer spending this holiday season.

" Firefighters snuffed a small fire at an empty house in southeast Cedar Rapids early Friday.

Posted on Nov 24, 2009 by Trish Mehaffey . James Waldron Sixth Judicial District Judge Robert Sosalla gave a man probation today for sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl, but first told him that was difficult because he doubted his remorse.

Posted on Nov 24, 2009 by admin . Debris from the flood clean-up effort in homes lines the curb of 9th Street NW between K and L avenues in the Time Check neighborhood of Cedar Rapids in October 2008.

Posted on Nov 25, 2009 by admin . Actor and Cedar Rapids native Ashton Kutcher is helping flood recovery in this month's GQ Magazine.

Cedar Rapids, Ia. - Democrat Kirsten Running-Marquardt appeared Tuesday night to have scored a landslide win in the special election in Iowa State House District 33, according to unofficial results.

Officials say enrollment overall in Iowa's public and private schools continue to show a slide.

Kathy's Pies is filling the Thanksgiving rush. It's no longer taking orders for Wednesday and expects to cut off orders for Thanksgiving day pies Tuesday.

Posted on Nov 20, 2009 by Admin . A police officer had to taser a man after he tried to grab a gun from the officer's holster early Friday morning.

A new Iowa Poll by The Des Moines Register shows fewer than half of Iowans approve of President Barack Obama's performance in office.

Free jewelry! Siebke Hoyt Jewelers is placing wrapped jewelry boxes all over the Cedar Rapids area.

Posted on Nov 20, 2009 by Adam Belz . Cedar Rapids, city of. Public Library, Old .

Cedar Rapids' City Hall at the Veterans Memorial Building, as seen in January 2009.

Posted on Nov 19, 2009 by Jeff Raasch . Crews responded to 19th Street SE today after a delivery truck struck a utility pole, pulling down power lines in the area.

Three old pieces of art are getting attention again after being covered up for most of their existence.

One house was destroyed and two adjacent houses were heavily damaged by an early morning fire on 19th Avenue SW between A and B Street SW.

Crews are on a scene of a fire in Czech Village that has burned one home to the ground, and damaged to others.

Posted on Nov 18, 2009 by Rick Smith . Congressman Dave Loebsack took a step Wednesday to position Cedar Rapids for funding in 2010 to build a flood-protection system for the city.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Prosecutors argued at a bail hearing for a former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager that an outpouring of financial support makes him a greater flight risk.

Before last year's flood, The Ballet Academy in southwest Cedar Rapids teamed up with a traveling dance company to put on the Nutcracker.

Posted on Nov 17, 2009 by Rick Smith . The state insurance commissioner has told the federal government that the city of Cedar Rapids should get a break on the amount of flood insurance the federal government requires of the city because of the unreasonable cost of coverage in the wake of the city's June 2008 flood.

The National Czech and Slovak Museum leaders in Cedar Rapids unveiled a new recovery and rebuilding plan Thursday morning.

Posted on Nov 14, 2009 by Adam Belz . Ella Doss stands in the living room of her rented home along Bever Avenue SE on Wednesday, Oct.

Posted on Nov 16, 2009 by Rick Smith . Get set for a detailed array of informational poster boards if you plan to attend one of the open houses on city facilities today or Wednesday.

A 200 foot tall crane crashes down in cedar rapids, smashing through buildings and crushing a pickup truck like a pop can.

A man and his two nephews, all of Cedar Rapids, have been arrested in connection with a break-in at a flood-affected home.

Posted on Nov 11, 2009 by Jeff Raasch . U.S. military veterans Edgerly Watts, Keith Wymore and Floyd Ondler, all of Cedar Rapids, listen to Don Bryant, of Cedar Rapids, as the veterans shared memories for the Marion/Cedar Rapids Optimist Club at Mr.

The Solid Waste and Recycling Division is extremely pleased to announce that as a result of the dedication of the Divisiona s leaf collection crews, loose leaf vacuum collection is back on track.

The opening minutes of this Veterans Day service touch all the senses for these men and women.

Anyone heading south on I-380 this morning after about 7:00 a.m. in Cedar Rapids had a rough Monday commute.

After living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for a third of my life, I've discovered that bowling is a big activity in this city.

One person is seriously injured after a garage collapse in northwest Cedar Rapids.

November 13, 2009 Election Day has come and gone, but a few races still need to be decided.

By NIGEL DUARA A former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid was convicted Thursday on 86 financial fraud charges that could bring a prison sentence of hundreds of years.Sholom Rubashkin still faces a second federal trial on 72 immigration charges.Jurors returned the verdict against Rubashkin, ...

Posted on Nov 12, 2009 by Admin . Marijuana a joint and a pipe Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009.

Posted on Nov 12, 2009 by Cindy Hadish . The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library at 30 16th Ave SW in Cedar Rapids is seen in this aerial photo taken Friday, Nov.

CEDAR RAPIDS a ' A three-car accident on the southwest edge of Cedar Rapids sent two drivers to the hospital Wednesday night.

A group of poultry lovers want the Cedar Rapids to join what they say is a growing number of cities allowing urban chickens to cluck away in back yards.

Posted on Nov 11, 2009 by admin . After displaying a handgun and hitting an attendant in the face, two masked men fled on foot from a southwest Cedar Rapids convenience store Tuesday night with a small amount of money from the store's register.

Posted on Nov 10, 2009 by Admin . Shayne Smalling Two men stand accused of stoning 50 ducks to death at the Bever Park petting zoo area.

There's still no commitment to return any Cedar Rapids city offices to the flood-damaged Veterans Memorial Building downtown.

Posted on Nov 09, 2009 by admin . Emergency responders assist at the scene of a multi-vehicle accident on southbound Interstate 380 on the 5-in-1 bridge near downtown Cedar Rapids this morning.

With an $11,000 purse up for grabs, Babbitta s Monster Energy Kawasakia s Tyler Bowers, of Danville, Ky., claimed the AMA Arenacross class victory while Storm Lake Hondaa s Kurt McCabe, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa took the AMA Arenacross Lites win.

As a result of the extreme volume of leaves, loose leaf collection in Cedar Rapids is behind by one full day.

Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by Spencer Willems . Jon Testrake, 35, looks through one of the fiction tables at the book drive.

Posted on Nov 06, 2009 by Admin . The holding cells on the third floor of the former Federal Courthouse at the corner of First Street and Second Ave in downtown Cedar Rapids.

Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by Steve Gravelle . Three people were taken to Cedar Rapids hospitals with minor injuries after two cars collided Sunday afternoon at the corner of Mount Vernon Road and Highway 13, the Linn County Sheriff's Office said.

Posted on Nov 03, 2009 by Rick Smith . Get out your calculators. It may be a bit of a challenge tonight to figure out who wins the two at-large City Council seats in today's election in Cedar Rapids.

Home > Blogs > Mulling it over > What is the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor's brand and message? Blogs , Mulling it over What is the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor's brand and message? Posted on Nov 03, 2009 by Lyle Muller .

Posted on Nov 05, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . For most people, Mike Huckabee says, there is a difference between Election Day and Christmas Day.

Dubuque's business community asked American Eagle representatives for a return of the daily fourth flight that was cut in 2008.

Posted on Nov 05, 2009 by Rick Smith . Federal dollars that will pay the bulk of the cost to buy out some 1,300 flood-damaged properties in Cedar Rapids is closer to being available to the city.

New ideas to reshape and rebuild downtown Cedar Rapids after the flood are re-emerging. But some council members aren't happy with those ideas.

Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by Spencer Willems . Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot spoke Friday in Iowa City with former patient Garret Frey.

Posted on Nov 04, 2009 by Admin . This photo shows victim Renee A. Zeman and her daughter, Carol Becker, shortly before Zeman's death.

Officials in Muscatine County have taken a 51-year-old Mechanicsville woman into custody on charges that she attempted to extort funds from a conservative anti-tax group.

The indie comedy "Cedar Rapids" has a few more new residents. Plus, "300's" warrior-leader will jump in time as a Sheakespearean warrior-leader. Sigourney Weaver and Alia Shawkat have signed on for the increasingly star-studded "Cedar Rapids," according to Variety .

Posted on Nov 03, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . Christopher Reed will formally announce his plans to seek the GOP nomination for the U.S. House from Iowa's 2nd District at 3:30 p.m., Nov.

Dan Lees of Cedar Rapids, head of the duck exhibit at the Bever Park Zoo, wrangles ducks into their overnight pens in August 2008.

Posted on Nov 03, 2009 by Steve Gravelle . Tim Reynolds Timothy Reynolds was formally charged Tuesday with attempted murder and willful injury causing serious injury in Sunday night's shooting in southeast Cedar Rapids.

Posted on Nov 01, 2009 by John McGlothlen . "Conspiracy in the Heartland: A Greed Story" they say would make an expose' that could fill books and supply a mini-series.A Conspiracy theories abound about the delay of buyout and rehab monies being deliberate efforts to further certain financial agendas.

A Hiawatha man has been arrested in connection with a weekend shooting that left another man with life-threatening injuries.

Posted on Nov 02, 2009 by Cindy Hadish . A public clinic will be offered Friday in Cedar Rapids for H1N1 vaccine, but only for people in priority groups and only the nasal vaccine will be available.

Steve Rathje, candidate for the US House of Representatives Rathje for Congress, IA CD-2 We're seeing it in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races and the battle for Congressional District 23 in New York.

Cedar Rapids Police are investigating a shooting on the city's southeast side. Officers were called to 1400 block of Fourth Avenue Southeast around 8:30 Sunday night for the report of a gunshot.

Water gushes into a downtown bar and floods the building, again. A maintenance worker discovered Cedar Rapids' Piano Lounge was filling up with water when entered the building Sunday afternoon.

Posted on Nov 01, 2009 by James Q. Lynch . President Barack Obama To mark the first anniversary of Barack Obama's election to the presidency, the Cedar Rapids premiere party for "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama," will be from 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at CSPS, 1103 3rd St.

Posted on Nov 01, 2009 by Rick Smith . A Gazette Communications poll finds that Ron Corbett has an eight point edge on Brian Fagan heading into Tuesday's mayoral vote.

Posted on Oct 30, 2009 by admin . Ron Corbett, Brian Fagan and P.T. Larsen, the three candidates for Cedar Rapids mayor, will be on the Bob Bruce Radio Experience show on WMT-AM from 4 to 6 p.m. today.