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Iowa City woman charged with OWI and Child Endangerment
An Iowa City woman faces possible prison time after being charged with her 3rd OWI and a count of Child Endangerment. Police say the incident occurred Sunday evening. According to the arrest report, 40-year-old Heather Zaehringer of East Court Street got in to an argument with her spouse. The spouse and the spouse’s brother left the residence, and Zaehringer reportedly followed them in another vehicle, accompanied by her five year old daughter.
Immigrant supporters march in IC to protest new law
About 100 people marched through Iowa City Monday night to demonstrate against government support of Iowa’s new “illegal reentry” law. Reverend Guillermo Trevino of West Liberty, born in Texas to two Mexican immigrant parents, told the Press Citizen at the rally “If the law is enacted, it would separate families and put children at risk of losing the emotional and financial support they need to survive.”
State board sanctions Iowa City massage therapist
An Iowa City massage therapist has been sanctioned and has had his license suspended for five years after a complaint from a female patient. Iowa Capital Dispatch reports available public records show that last year the board issued an emergency order suspending the license of Abelardo Rodriguez. The board also...
Nate Heise might be the perfect role player for Iowa State basketball
When then-Northern Iowa guard finished his fourth season with the Panthers, he had nothing but positive things to say about his time in Cedar Falls. Inside him, however, was a desire to do something bigger. "I wanted to play in arguably the best conference," Heise said. With one year of...
Essential Dos and Don’ts for Iowa’s New THC Regulations
On Monday, July 1st at midnight, a new law went into effect, causing some restaurants, bars, and distributors to panic. It's a new state law focused on the use and sale of tetrahydrocannabinol, otherwise known as THC. The new law (HF 2605) does not outright ban THC in products like...
Angela Harrington at Panka Peruvian Restaurant
Angela Harrington is a developer, hotelier and civic promoter of the I-80 corridor from Des Moines to Iowa City. We asked her to lunch and met at Panka Peruvian Restaurant, a marvelous, minority- and female-owned café on Ingersoll. Mariella Maya’s restaurant upgraded recently after she closed her rotisserie chicken...
‘1-Bag Challenge’ breaks litter collection record in Cedar Rapids
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Cedar Rapids City Manager Jeff Pomeranz’s 1-Bag Challenge hit a new record of trash collected this year. A total of 9,074 bags of litter were collected in the fiscal year 2024. The previous record was 7,192 bags, set in fiscal year 2023. Since 2012,...
Local Iowa high school baseball highlights and scores (7-3-24)
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) – Attached are the highlights and scores from our local Iowa high school baseball games on July 3rd, 2024: Denison-Schleswig 6, Le Mars 1 Kingsley-Pierson/River Valley 4, Sioux City East 2 Unity Christian 10, Sioux Central 0 IKM-Manning 10, Ar-We-Va 0 Bishop Heelan 10, CB Jefferson 0 (Game 1 – Doubleheader) […]
Flooding, high water levels in eastern Iowa prompt calls for caution ahead of Fourth of July
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Susan Stocker, Boating Law Administrator with the Iowa DNR summed up the situation in a sentence. ”The last four years, as we’ve been told, we haven’t had a lot of water, and now it all seems to have come all at once.”
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