Urbana News

Posted on Nov 13, 2009 by Spencer Willems . Emergency workers work to clear an accident on northbound lanes on Interstate 380 at mile marker 30 early Friday night.

Posted on Oct 27, 2009 by Admin . No one was seriously hurt when a car collided with a school bus loaded with students near Urbana Tuesday morning.

The Linn County Sheriff's Office says the southbound lanes of I-380 one mile north of Center Point have re-opened following a semi fire.

An agreement between Nebraska and Iowa will let residents hunt on land in both states.

The Benton County Sheriff has released the names of two people who died in a motorcycle crash near Urbana Friday.

Police said the driver and passenger of a motorcycle have died in a crash on a rural blacktop road in Benton County.

Police say the driver and passenger of a motorcycle have died in a crash on a rural blacktop road in Benton County.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Sydney McCartney, 8, of Urbana, Iowa, watches Sunday as Wray Sloan of Mount Pleasant operates a Kluge Press, built in 1948, during the 2009 Midwest Old Threshers Reunion in Printers' Hall in McMilan Park in Mount Pleasant.

Posted on Aug 09, 2009 by Meredith Hines-Dochterman . Melissa McMullen, an elementary school music teacher with the Cedar Rapids School District, helps Jarrod Crabtree of Urbana as he looks for new running shoes at Running Wild Wednesday, July 29, 2009 in Cedar Rapids.

Posted on Aug 09, 2009 by Meredith Hines-Dochterman . Melissa McMullen, an elementary school music teacher with the Cedar Rapids School District, helps Jarrod Crabtree of Urbana as he looks for new running shoes at Running Wild Wednesday, July 29, 2009 in Cedar Rapids.

An armed man who holed up in his Shellsburg home for most of the evening Friday is in jail.

Posted on Jul 25, 2009 by Admin . Violence broke out in Urbana Saturday morning when 28-year-old Timothy Prior pointed a handgun at several patrons gathered at a local bar before killing himself.

We are getting word this morning from witnesses in Benton County there is some sort of shooting investigation going on in Urbana.

On July 25, 2009, at 12:55 a.m. the Benton County Sheriff's office received a 911 call with a report of shots fired at the Ozone Bar at 309 West Wood Street in Urbana, Iowa.

Harold Frank Kramer, 96, died Thursday, July 23, 2009, at Virginia Gay Nursing and Rehab, Vinton, following a brief illness.

Firefighters watch as a damaged tractor is removed from a machine shed at the Ed and Glenda McKinley farm at 5357 30th Ave.

Linn County Sheriff's Department officers investigate a Chevrolet sedan that was driven into the median on Interstate 380 southbound, just north of the Boyson Road exit in Hiawatha, Friday after a several-mile high-speed chase.

Two of the three enclosed trailers tossed by winds in excess of 80 mph at Patten Equipment in Urbana are shown Friday morning.

Severe weather continues to track across eastern Iowa as we continue to receive reports of heavy wind damage and flash flooding.

Destructive winds tossed three enclosed trailers more than 20 yards at Patton Equipment along Interstate 380 Friday morning.