CEDAR RAPIDS — It took 40 years, but jurors deliberated just three hours to find Jerry Burns guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Michelle Martinko. The 18-year-old Kennedy High School student died in her family’s Buick outside [...]
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HIAWATHA — The 2020 Winter Gardening Fair, hosted by the Linn County ISU Extension Master Gardeners, transplanted this year to a new location. Long held at the Kirkwood Community College campus in Cedar Rapids, this year’s event, on Saturday, Feb. [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A lawsuit that attempts to halt Cargill from building a 200-car, 12-track industrial railyard in a residential neighborhood has new backing. Members of the Prairie Park neighborhood, in southeast Cedar Rapids, have filed to intervene in [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — It took 40 years, but jurors deliberated just three hours to find Jerry Burns guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Michelle Martinko. The 18-year-old Kennedy High School student died in her family’s Buick outside of Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids in December 1979. More: Case begins against Jerry Burns […]
HIAWATHA — The 2020 Winter Gardening Fair, hosted by the Linn County ISU Extension Master Gardeners, transplanted this year to a new location. Long held at the Kirkwood Community College campus in Cedar Rapids, this year’s event, on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, was moved to the Kirkwood Regional Center, 1770 Boyson Road, Hiawatha. See photos […]
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A lawsuit that attempts to halt Cargill from building a 200-car, 12-track industrial railyard in a residential neighborhood has new backing. Members of the Prairie Park neighborhood, in southeast Cedar Rapids, have filed to intervene in the lawsuit by State Sen. Rob Hogg and his wife Kate Hogg, which seeks to […]
The mystery of who killed Michelle Martinko, an 18-year-old Kennedy High School student stabbed to death outside of Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, has haunted Iowans for 40 years. Her body was found in the family Buick in the mall parking lot in the early morning hours of Dec. 20, 1979. She was last seen […]
UPDATE, Feb. 10, 2020: The Iowa Department of Public Health announced today that the two people tested for the novel coronavirus have tested negative. The department’s website indicates 26 people who do not have symptoms for the virus are being monitored in Iowa. Original post: Iowa health officials have identified two possible cases of coronavirus, […]
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Nearly 250 people turned out for the Democratic caucus at Franklin Middle School in Cedar Rapids, one of more than 1,600 precinct sites across the state on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. The Iowa caucuses constitute the first nominating contest in the 2020 presidential election. More: Snapshot of 2016 Iowa caucuses From […]
UPDATE, Feb. 4, 2020: Andy Dunham added the following comments regarding the decision by Grinnell Heritage Farm to scale back its operations. “We stopped doing farmers markets last season because, after looking at the numbers, we found that we were not gaining ground by going to markets, even in IC or especially DM. We could […]
CEDAR RAPIDS — Protesters greeted the chairman and CEO of Cargill to Cedar Rapids with signs and chants against the global ag giant for its environmental track record. Hosted by Mighty Earth, a global environmental organization that works to protect tropical forests, oceans and the climate, more than a dozen people demonstrated Wednesday, Jan. 29 […]
Iowans living in rural communities are virtually helpless when a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, also known as a factory farm, sets its sights on nearby properties. Issues go beyond the stench that neighbors are forced to tolerate, as the sewage produced by these facilities, which pack in animals in small quarters, leads to pollution of […]
Sad news out of central Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, that a bald eagle died after being shot in northeast Ankeny. Related: Iowan kills six trumpeter swans Learn more from the DNR report: On January 3, 2020, the Ankeny Police Department contacted a DNR Conservation Officer and a […]
