by admin | Feb 27, 2009 | Recreation / Entertainment
A performing arts group, that’s celebrating its 75th year in Cedar Rapids, has announced a six-million dollar restoration of their flood-damaged home. Theatre Cedar Rapids was forced out of the downtown Iowa Theatre Building in June. Tim Boyle, executive...
by admin | Feb 27, 2009 | Crime & Courts
Federal officials have released the names of 14 Iowans who are facing charges in a statewide child pornography investigation. Eleven of the suspects were initially identified when search warrants were served last November. Matthew Whitaker, the U.S. Attorney for...
by admin | Feb 27, 2009 | Crime & Courts
Investigators are releasing the name of the person found dead in central Iowa earlier this week, though questions remain about how he died. Authorities have now identified the body as found in rural Boone County as 38-year-old Shannon Washburn of Boone. An autopsy by...
by admin | Feb 26, 2009 | Politics & Government, Recreation / Entertainment
The Iowa Senate has endorsed a so-called "Bicyclist’s Bill of Rights." A bill which passed the Senate late this afternoon would require motorists to mainain a five-foot distance when passing a bicyclist, and motorists caught following a bicyclist...
by admin | Feb 26, 2009 | Education, Politics & Government
Governor Chet Culver says he will sign into law the two percent increase in general state aid to schools which legislators endorsed this week. State law requires legislators and the governor to set the main, per student payments to K-through-12 schools more than a...
