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Iowa City man accused of exposing himself while yelling racial slurs is back behind bars

Lang 12/10/24 An Iowa City man accused of exposing himself while yelling racial slurs is back behind bars after allegedly skipping his trial. 34-year-old Joseph Harmon of North Van Buren Street was booked into the Johnson County...Read More

Iowa City man charged with multiple counts of child sex abuse sentenced to 25 years in prison

Lang 12/10/24 An Iowa City man accused of multiple incidents of child sex abuse has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. 20-year-old Jerell Rush of East Bloomington Street was taken into custody in July after an...Read More

Gas line break leads to temporary evacuation in Iowa City’s Northside Neighborhood

Lang 12/9/24 A gas line break led to a brief evacuation in Iowa City’s Northside Neighborhood. The incident was reported just after 4:00 Monday afternoon near Pop’s Barbecue on North Dubuque Street. Market Street was blocked off...Read More

Iowa City man accused of sexually abusing children given 32-year prison sentence

Lang 12/9/24 An Iowa City man accused of sexually abusing children has been sentenced to over 30 years in prison. 43-year-old Munga Sapo of the Lake Ridge manufactured housing community entered a guilty plea last month. Sapo...Read More

Closing arguments expected Tuesday in Iowa City catfishing murder trial

Lang 12/9/24 Closing arguments are expected Tuesday in the Iowa City murder trial of a man accused of catfishing his victim. 33-year-old Renard Winfield Jr., of Gary, Indiana is accused of posing as a woman online to...Read More

Two Linn County residents dead after multi-county high-speed police chase ends with head-on collision near Riverside

Lang 12/8/24 Two Linn County residents are dead after a high-speed police chase ended with a head-on collision near Riverside. The Muscatine Police Department says the chase started Sunday afternoon around 3:15 when dispatchers received multiple reports...Read More

Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity receives $15,000 grant to support home repair projects in Lone Tree and Iowa City

Lang 12/9/24 Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity has announced it has received a $15,000 grant from Lowe’s to help repair two homes in Iowa City and Lone Tree. With the support of the grant, Iowa Valley Habitat...Read More

Cedar Rapids man allegedly carrying multiple packages of marijuana arrested after allegedly smoking the drug outside Iowa City business

Lang 12/9/24 A Cedar Rapids man allegedly caught smoking marijuana outside an Iowa City business faces felony charges after he reportedly had several baggies of the drug in his possession. Iowa City Police say they noticed 25-year-old...Read More

Gov. Reynolds extends harvest proclamation

Lang 12/9/24 Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed an extension of the proclamation relating to the weight limits and transportation of grain, fertilizer, and manure. The proclamation is effective immediately and continues through January 7th. It allows vehicles transporting corn,...Read More

Woman accused of breaking into hairdresser’s residence and assaulting her over hair care product dispute back behind bars for skipping court date

Lang 12/9/24 A western Iowa woman accused of breaking into her hairdresser’s Iowa City apartment to assault her because of a dispute over hair care products was back behind bars over the weekend. 22-year-old Daizha Armstead of...Read More

Iowa to meet Missouri in TransPerfect Music City Bowl (12/30 at 1:30 p.m.)

UI Athletics news release Iowa to Meet Missouri in TransPerfect Music City Bowl (12/30 at 1:30 p.m.) IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa football team will face Missouri in the 2024 TransPerfect Music City Bowl on...Read More

Iowa City Police arrest UI student with a pole in his pants

Lang 12/8/24 Iowa City Police have charged a University of Iowa student they say had a pole in his pants at the time of his arrest. Officers report seeing 19-year-old Cole Swanson of Barrington, Illinois using a...Read More

UI student accused of trying to steal items from Iowa City City Hall construction area

Lang 12/8/24 For the second time in just over a month a suspect has trespassed in the construction area near Iowa City City Hall. Iowa City Police say an officer observed 20-year-old Austin Jordan and a friend...Read More

National News

President-elect Trump calls for “immediate ceasefire” in Russia-Ukraine war

On Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump called for an “immediate ceasefire” in the war between Russia and Ukraine, writing in a post on social media, “there should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin,” and calling the war...Read More

President Assad flees Syria after rebels capture Damascus

Rebel forces invaded Syria and captured Damascus on Sunday, bring a decades-long reign by the Assad family to an end. President Bashar Assad fled the country and relinquished the presidency, with Russian state media reporting that...Read More

New photos of ‘person of interest’ released in shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

The New York Police Department released two new photos of the ‘person of interest’ in the ongoing manhunt for the masked gunman who shot dead UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel on Wednesday,...Read More