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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University of Iowa Cambus driver cited after hitting pedestrian
A University of Iowa student and Cambus driver has been ticketed after police said she hit a 66-year-old pedestrian who was walking in a crosswalk Monday morning. Iowa City police responded to the intersection of Jefferson and Clinton streets in downtown Iowa City at 8:13 a.m. on a report of a pedestrian who had been [...]
Iowa City saw 39 percent more fires in 2012: Report
Iowa City firefighters were busy last year, responding to about 10 percent more calls than in 2011, including 39 percent more fires, according to the department’s annual report released this week. When compared to five years ago, the Iowa City Fire Department saw a 20 percent rise in its total call volume, according to the [...]
Iowa City stabbing suspect back in Johnson County
An 18-year-old University of Iowa student accused of stabbing two men early Sunday in Iowa City is now in the Johnson County Jail after authorities found him in his girlfriend’s dorm room on the Western Illinois University campus. Gabriel E. Badding, of Oak Park, Ill., is accused of stabbing two men in downtown Iowa City [...]
Iowa Business Specialty Court Pilot Project now accepting cases
Beginning this week, litigants sparring over complex business or commercial differences in Iowa will make their plight for why they should get to tell it to a specially-trained judge. The new Iowa Business Specialty Court Pilot Project began accepting applications Wednesday from parties involved in qualifying business or commercial cases, like those with $200,000 or [...]
Cedar Rapids cardiology clinic picks St. Luke’s, upsets patients
After about 35 years of letting Cedar Rapids patients choose where they want to be seen, the largest cardiology clinic in Eastern Iowa will provide care only at St. Luke’s Hospital. Officials with UnityPoint Clinic-Cardiology, formerly known as Cardiologists L.C., said the change will become effective June 1, allowing the group of cardiologists to focus [...]
Iowa City vehicular homicide trial reset a fourth time
A Johnson County judge – for the fifth time – has set a new trial date for an Iowa City woman accused of hitting and killing her friend with a Dodge Ram truck last summer. Miranda Lalla, 51, was supposed to be tried on vehicular homicide and drunken driving charges May 7 – the fourth [...]
Cedar Rapids man still aims to be Sierra Leone’s president
When longtime Cedar Rapids resident and Sierra Leone native returned to the west African nation last year to run for the top political seat, he didn’t win – technically. But Joshua Carew’s bid in Sierra Leone’s 2012 presidential election surprised a lot of people. He and his newly-established political party, the Citizens Democratic Party, placed [...]
Downtown Iowa City stabbing suspect in custody
UPDATE: Iowa City police have arrested an 18-year-old University of Iowa student in connection with the weekend stabbing of two men near downtown. Gabriel E. Badding was taken into custody by the Western Illinois University police in Macomb, Ill. about 4:30 p.m. Sunday on an Iowa City warrant, according to a news release. Iowa City [...]
Supporters, opponents debate expanding Iowa’s DNA collection
At 4 a.m. on June 5, 2007, Micah Matthews broke into a 50-year-old woman’s Iowa City home, woke her and forced her at gunpoint to drive to an ATM and withdraw cash. Matthews then pistol-whipped her, sexually assaulted her and bound her wrists and ankles with a phone cord. The woman survived but endured months [...]
Justin Marshall sentenced to life in 2009 Iowa City shooting
Moments before being sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison, Justin Marshall looked into the eyes of the family of John Versypt and said he did not kill their husband, father and brother. “I am innocent,” Marshall said during his sentencing hearing Friday. “I don’t know who did this, who did such [...]
