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Current list of postponements, closures, changes to area businesses and events

This is a running list of organizations and businesses that have postponed, closed or rescheduled. Please email us at kcjjam@gmail.com if you’d like to be added to the list. RESTAURANTS: Addy’s Public House in Lisbon is offering take-out...Read More

Iowa baseball holds online fire sale to unload new merchandise for season that never happened

Lang 4/9/20 What happens when you’re a major university athletics department, you stock up your merchandise stands for the upcoming season…and then that season never happens? That’s the situation the University of Iowa Athletics department faced after...Read More

State unemployment officials say CARES act benefits should start being paid next week

Hunter 04/09/20 State unemployment officials said that CARES Act benefits, including unemployment claims for the self-employed, should start being paid next week. That news comes as Iowa Workforce Development announced that initial unemployment claims for the week...Read More

Two people shot at CR business; suspect still at large

Hunter 04/09/20 (updated 9am) Cedar Rapids police are combing the area near a business where a suspect reportedly entered and shot two people. The incident occurred just after 5am at Associated Materials on Beverly Road Southwest. Reports...Read More

Cedar Rapids man arrested after leading police on high-speed chase

Hunter 04/09/20 A Cedar Rapids man was taken into custody early Thursday after allegedly leading police on a high-speed chase that began in North Liberty. Arrest reports indicate that 24-year-old Elijah Hayes of 29th Avenue Southwest was...Read More

State democratic county conventions to be held remotely

Hunter 04/09/20 The Iowa Democratic Party, citing concerns with the coronavirus pandemic, have announced plans to hold its county conventions remotely. Party chair Mark Smith tells KGAN that county leaders have been briefed on options on how...Read More

Less than 100 students remain in UI residence halls

Hunter 04/09/20 Most of the over 6300 University of Iowa students living in residence halls have moved out now that instruction is being done exclusively online for the rest of the semester. However, less than 100 are...Read More

CR police investigate Bever Park shooting

Hunter 04/09/20 Cedar Rapids Police are investigating a shooting that occurred Wednesday afternoon at Bever Park. According to a release from the Department, officers were dispatched to the park, in the 2700 block of Bever Avenue Southeast,...Read More

World News

New York Sees Highest Single Day Death Toll Despite Reports That Curve Is “Flattening”

The nation’s coronavirus outbreak epicenter logged its single deadliest day yet. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that the state had its highest single-day death toll due to COVID-19, with 779 reported Tuesday, but the average number of hospitalizations...Read More

Bernie Sanders Ends His 2020 Presidential Campaign

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race on Wednesday. Former Vice President Joe Biden is now the party’s best chance to defeat President Donald Trump in November. Biden now has a clear...Read More

Stephanie Grisham Leaving Role As White House Press Secretary

White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham is leaving that role to become First Lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff and spokeswoman. President Donald Trump’s campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany will replace Grisham as White House press secretary. The...Read More

Acting Secretary Of The Navy Thomas Modly Resigns After Remarks Made On Open Micraphone

Defense secretary Mark Esper confirmed Tuesday that he had accepted the resignation of Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly after Modly called the aircraft carrier captain he fired last week “stupid” in an address to the...Read More

Body Of Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean Found After Canoe Accident

Authorities found the body of Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean on Monday, five days after her canoe apparently capsized in the Chesapeake Bay. McKean, 40, the daughter of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and granddaughter of...Read More

President Trump Allows Navy Ship Comfort To Be Used For COVID-19 Patients

President Donald Trump said Monday that he granted New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s request to treat novel coronavirus patients on a hospital ship docked off of Manhattan. Cuomo had told reporters earlier Monday that he was...Read More