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 [...]

Neighbors helped 13 people escape unharmed from a morning apartment fire in Cedar Rapids. The first call came in around 8:15 a.m. for smoke and flames coming from the building with four apartments in the 400 block of 14th Street SE. Everyone made it out safely, but there is extensive damage to the apartment complex. [...]

Two people were hospitalized after a fire Sunday night at the Shamrock Condominiums, 324 Jacolyn Dr. SW. The fire started around 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Firefighters could see thick black smoke from several blocks away and arrived on scene at the two-story, 15-unit condominium complex to find fire pushing out of a ground level apartment window [...]

Mount Mercy students were helped by staff members at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids while playing the part of victims of a fictitious chemical explosion in a lab at the school Wednesday, April 17, 2013 during a mock emergency drill. Mercy Medical Center participates in two full-scale disaster drills each year. These drills test [...]

  As a massive manhunt geared up for the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Thursday evening, the brothers wanted in the attack decided to take their chances by venturing into the streets near their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Before the night was out, one of the young men was dead, crushed beneath [...]

UPDATE: A pipe bomb discovered in a Cedar Falls neighborhood was detonated by a bomb squad without incident Tuesday afternoon. A robot from the Waterloo Police Department bomb squad picked up the bomb from a yard in the 2300 block of Royal Drive Tuesday afternoon and transported it across the street to another yard where [...]

  Sick with a bad cold, Rob Hartkemeyer finished the Boston Marathon Monday about an hour slower than his usual time in the 26.2-mile race. He’s lucky it wasn’t an hour and five minutes. Hartkemeyer, 52, of Hiawatha, missed the explosions that struck the finish line of the world’s oldest, and arguably the most prestigious, [...]

  TUESDAY UPDATE: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says no unexploded bombs were found at the Boston Marathon. He says the only explosives were the ones that went off Monday. Three people were killed, including an 8-year-old boy, by two explosions just seconds apart near the finish line. Police commissioner Ed Davis says 176 victims came [...]

Firefighters battled a warehouse fire in Solon Thursday morning. The warehouse for Hansel Cabinet Company sits on Windflower Lane on the southeast side of town. Crews were called to the scene around 10 a.m. Thursday. They used foam to get the flames under control. Multiple fire departments responded to the scene, including North Liberty and [...]