Vanessa MillerVanessa Miller is a general assignment reporter interested in a wide range of topics – from public safety trends to public health investigations to the human interest story about a heroic teenager who saved his mother’s life. Miller graduated from the University of Iowa in 2002 with a double major in journalism and religion and spent the first few years of her career covering city hall for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. Miller moved to Boulder, Colo., in 2004, where she covered the cops and courts beat for the Boulder Daily Camera. Miller and her husband moved back to Iowa in 2011 for family. Miller loves getting reader comments, questions and news tips as she strives to engage and serve the community through reporting on topics at the heart of Eastern Iowa. |
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2012 population estimates show big growth in Johnson County
You don’t have to tell longtime Tiffin resident and mother of three Angie Dains that her city and the surrounding communities are booming and soon could be bursting at the seams. She can see it in the hallways of her children’s schools. She can hear it in the construction work surrounding her neighborhood. She can [...]
Peeping trial of accused Iowa City landlord moved to July
The invasion of privacy trial for an Iowa City landlord accused of spying on several female tenants in his buildings through peepholes in bathrooms has been reset to July. Elwyn G. Miller, 63, of Iowa City, was supposed to be tried on 11 charges of invasion of privacy involving nudity this week. But court records [...]
Iowa City police make third arrest in Regina bomb threats
Nine months after Iowa City’s Regina Catholic Education Center was disrupted by two separate bomb threats that forced evacuations and building-wide searches, police have made a third arrest. Kashawn Supreme Deas, 21, of Allentown, Penn., was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of calling the K-12 school numerous times on both Aug. 20 and Sept. [...]
Iowa City man accused of having 10 pounds of marijuana, $20,000 in safe
A 50-year-old Iowa City man is in the Johnson County Jail this morning on felony charges after police found more than 10 pounds of marijuana in his house, just east of downtown. Members of the Johnson County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant for Gerald Lawrence Gerard at 1102 East Davenport St. at 2 [...]
Iowa City’s La James beauty school accused of violating sanitation, licensing laws
La James International College in Iowa City, a well-known beauty school, is facing several accusations that it violated Iowa Code related to sanitary practices and licensing requirements. The Iowa Board of Cosmetology Arts and Sciences announced Thursday that is has filed 10 charges against the school at 227 E. Market St. and that the college, [...]
Couple accused of stealing jewelry from Iowa City man’s deceased wife
UPDATE 4:30 p.m.: A couple has been arrested on suspicion of stealing jewelry belonging to an Iowa City man’s deceased wife and then pawning it to help pay rent. Stacy James Levell, 40, and Melissa Kay Levell, 38, are accused of visiting a man — who they knew as a friend or acquaintance — at [...]
Unwed parenting on the rise nationally, locally
On most days, it’s just Brittany Honer and her 5-year-old daughter, Kaitlin Ansell. They color. They go to the park. They play with toys or read until the 22-year-old single mom takes Kaitlin to an evening day care so she can work the late shift at a Casey’s General Store in Cedar Rapids. Their [...]
Iowa City man accused of threatening 12-year-old at gunpoint
A 61-year-old Iowa City man was arrested over the weekend after police said he confronted, at gunpoint, a 12-year-old boy looking for lawn-mowing jobs and posed as an undercover police officer. Kevin John Shannon faces six criminal charges, including felony first-degree robbery, and he’s being held in the Johnson County Jail in lieu of a [...]
Cedar Rapids woman accused of having smorgasbord of drugs
A Cedar Rapids woman is facing a slew of felony and misdemeanor drug charges after police found a smorgasbord of drugs and paraphernalia in her car early this morning. Megan Eileen Costello was pulled over at 1:26 a.m. near the intersection of Highland Avenue and Highland Court in Iowa City, and officers discovered she had [...]
Coralville man accused of taking $11,000 in sunglasses from mall kiosk
With the weather starting to turn and summer right around the corner, one Coralville man is accused of trying to take advantage. David Alexander Rose, 35, was arrested Wednesday after police said he broke into the Sunglass Hut kiosk in the Coral Ridge Mall and stole more than $11,000 in high-end shades. Rose is accused [...]
