July 5, 2017 Iowa city prepares for highest floodwaters since 2008 record Residents of Cedar Rapids are watching anxiously as the quickly rising Cedar River threatens to inundate their city with devastating floodwaters for the second time in just over eight years.
July 5, 2017 Residents evacuate Cedar Rapids homes ahead of flooding in Iowa Several thousand residents of Cedar Rapids left their homes Sunday as floodwaters began to spill out of the rising Cedar River, and Iowa's second-largest city worked to apply the lessons officials learned after the record 2008 flood.
July 5, 2017 Snowflake Watch: Safe words for safe spaces Citizens have 911. Employees have the EEOC. Consumers have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and distressed sailors have the Coast Guard. But what do America’s college students have? Where can they turn when they find themselves outside campus “safe spaces” and suffer a “microaggression”?
July 5, 2017 Storm that spawned 24 tornado reports barrels east; 3 dead A powerful and wide-reaching line of severe storms barreled east on Wednesday threatening new damage, after spinning off as many as 24 tornadoes across the central U.S., killing at least three people.
July 5, 2017 Iowa city braces as flood levels soar; National Guard ready to help Thousands of people evacuated Cedar Rapids and others braced for potential disaster as the river running through Iowa's largest city reached its second-highest peak ever on Tuesday.
July 5, 2017 Hundreds evacuate as heavy rains ratchet up flood danger in Iowa Roughly half of the homes and businesses in an area of Cedar Rapids, Iowa expected to see major flooding have evacuated, a city spokeswoman told reporters Monday.
July 5, 2017 Iowa mother, infant seriously injured in fireworks incident A mother and her newborn baby were seriously injured over the weekend after a faulty firework struck the two at a party in eastern Iowa.
June 22, 2017 Iowa deputy dies after shooting at jail; escaped inmate in custody A Nebraska sheriff’s deputy died from his injuries Monday after being shot by an inmate who escaped from county jail, the Omaha World-Herald reported.
June 21, 2017 Chris Christie feels the love in Iowa MARION, Iowa -- At 3 p.m. on a Thursday, well after any lunch rush had come and gone, MJ's Restaurant in Marion was teeming with activity.
May 24, 2017 Man pleads not guilty in deadly Iowa jail escape A man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed a sheriff's deputy and wounded another while escaping from an Iowa jail.