CEDAR RAPIDS — It took 40 years, but jurors deliberated just three hours to find Jerry Lynn 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 […]
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Month: February 2020
Photos: Winter Gardening Fair 2020
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 […]
Legal filing calls Cargill attempts to b...
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 […]
“Forever 18” Prosecution begins in Miche
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 […]
Two Iowans undergo testing for coronavir...
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, […]
Eyes on Iowa: photos from caucus night 2...
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 […]