IOWA CITY – The City Council Tuesday night OK’d a grant application that would provide money to put armed police officers in secondary schools in the Iowa City Community School District. The intent is to hire two new police officers to serve as what are known as school resource officers in the district’s three high [...]

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 [...]

A petition challenging traffic-enforcement cameras in Iowa City is valid, but the portion of it covering cameras is not timely, yet the city may repeal its camera ordinance anyway. Oh, and cameras are not even installed yet and were not going to be any time soon. Got that? Those related and complicated pieces of information [...]

The Iowa City Police Department and school district are discussing the possibility of adding a “community police presence” in secondary schools. Superintendent Steve Murley said the district and police are carefully considering adding one or two officers to work in the district’s six middle and high school buildings on a full-time basis. “We are really [...]

Johnson County residents will head to the polls today to cast their vote on a $43.5 million bond issue to pay for a new justice center. Polls are open today from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Plans for the justice center include a new 195-bed jail and courtrooms. The facility would be located just behind [...]

IOWA CITY – Shortly before 2 p.m. Monday, the Johnson County Hazardous Materials Response Team responded to Mayflower Residence Hall in Iowa City along with the Iowa City Fire Department. For more information, go to KCRG.com

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 [...]

The Iowa Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded a disciplinary action taken by the Iowa Board of Medicine against a University of Iowa radiology professor cited for excessive use of alcohol. That ruling, made this week, means the disciplinary action levied against Wendy R. K. Smoker in January 2011 and affirmed by a district [...]