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 [...]

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville gets the message out to 100 percent of its students via text message if an emergency happens on its campus. But less than half of the students at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University who are signed up to get emergency alerts — and not all are — would [...]

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 [...]

A former University of Iowa student accused of posing as a prospective tenant, locking a woman in her apartment and sexually assaulting her could spend up to 17 years in prison. Peng Tang, 22, was sentenced Monday to up to 17 years in prison, although he will be eligible for parole sooner. Tang originally was [...]

Cedar Rapids officials will begin towing vehicles for street storage Monday. Police said with the heavy snow fall over the last couple of weeks, it’s become “very easy” for officers to tell which vehicles have been moved 48 hours after the snow fall, which is required by Cedar Rapids code, and which have not. Authorities [...]

Officials are investigating after a man allegedly attempted to coax a young girl into his van Tuesday morning. According to authorities, a 12-year-old girl was approached in the 1200 block of Third Avenue SE between 7 and 8 a.m. Tuesday by a man driving a dark blue full-sized van. Officials said the van stopped and [...]

Police have identified a man who became frustrated Monday at the Marion Public Library and reportedly said he would “shoot everyone” as he was leaving. Marion police Lt. Scott Elam said the man was located and warned about his behavior Tuesday evening, but was not charged with a crime. The man, whose name has not [...]

Two teenage girls from Cedar Rapids were reported missing Tuesday, but police said the cases do not appear related. Operation Quickfinds have been issued for Zoey Irvin, 16, and Abagail Whitehouse, 14, who were both last seen Monday. Sgt. Cristy Hamblin said both girls left on their own accord and were not believed to be [...]

Police have issued an Operation Quickfind for a 17-year-old Marion boy. Jacob Schultz was last seen leaving his home, 885 Fairview Dr., on Monday around 8 a.m. Schultz is six feet tall, weighs about 200 pounds and has blonde hair and blue eyes. Schultz was last seen wearing faded blue jeans with holes, a tan sweatshirt [...]

A Cedar Rapids resident on a late-night iced tea run for his pregnant fiancée helped end a chase between a man and Cedar Rapids police last weekend by tackling the man to the ground. Officers were in the area of First Avenue NE and 17th Street SE around 11 p.m. Saturday night when they saw [...]