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Meet every new Iowa City-area high school football coach for 2024 IHSAA season
Three Iowa City area football programs have hit a much-needed refresh entering the 2024 Iowa high school football season. Two of those teams missed the IHSAA football postseason with losing records last season, but a fresh coaching perspective could flip the script during the 2024 campaign. With the Iowa high school football season kicking...
Northeast Iowa Community College launches new digital media and journalism degrees
Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) is adding two new Associate of Arts transfer degrees in Digital Media and Journalism. The new programs are partnered with several four-year universities in the state of Iowa, allowing an easy transfer of credits into a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. Journalism graduates at...
Twin Cities-area man takes plea deal on North Iowa gun crime
MASON CITY, Iowa – A plea deal is reached by a Minnesota man facing gun and drug charges in Cerro Gordo County. Anthony Michael Jungk, 36 of Brooklyn Park, MN, has pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm as a felon. Charges of person ineligible to carry dangerous weapons and possession of marijuana-1st offense will likely be dismissed when Jungk is sentenced, which is scheduled for August 26.
Let's settle the debate, Iowans: At what temperature do you set your AC thermostat?
It's a simple question, but an age-old debate: At what temperature should the air conditioning be set? The hot Iowa summer has been upon us, and 97% of the state's households use air conditioning equipment to stay cool, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. With the heat index in Iowa and Des Moines...
Cedar Rapids non-profit working to build community to ‘Save Us From Us’
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - New data from Cedar Rapids police show a decrease in shots fired calls every month so far this year. Leaders with the Cedar Rapids based non-profit Save Us From Us say that’s a good sign that events like the one they held on Wednesday are working.
Coaching contracts. A casino conflict. A hungry horse. Newspapers nosedive.
The salaries of state employees are public information, and, to the surprise of some and the unsurprise of others, coaches from Iowa’s three state universities continue to be some of the highest-paid state employees. The UNI men’s basketball Head Coach Ben Jacobsen has won more than 300 games with...
Off Podium Empire, July 30: In Which Iowa and UCLA Join the Scoring Club
UCLA: 23 (1x gold) Minnesota: 21 (1x silver) Penn State: 23 (2x bronze) Wisconsin: 16 (1x bronze) Alev Kelter of Wisconsin, Kayla Canett of Penn State, Alena Olsen of Michigan, and the rest of the USA women’s rugby squad had a last second dramatic as hell win. This is exactly why risk-averse college coaches play Prevent defense in the final seconds. What a phenomenal bronze medal win, what a run.
HACAP working on details of a plan to buy Olivet Neighborhood Mission building
HACAP says its offer to buy the Olivet Neighborhood Mission building has been accepted. It's not a done deal yet, but it could be good news for the northwest side of Cedar Rapids. Olivet Church told the mission earlier this month it needed to be out of the building by...
New HBO Series Documents Eastern Iowa Abduction
(Waterloo, IA) -- An eastern Iowa abduction case is the subject of a new docuseries on HBO. The series 'Taken Together, Who Killed Lyric and Elizabeth' covers the case of two cousins, ages 8 and 10, who vanished during a bike ride in the Waterloo, Iowa suburb of Evansdale in July 2012.