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UI Department of Public Safety news release Severe Weather Awareness Week and Hawk Alert Test As we enter severe weather season and recognize Severe Weather Awareness Week (March 24-28), it…
Johnson County Emergency Management news release
Lang 3/23/25 A Tiffin convenience store employee is accused of keeping a pair of winning lottery tickets and cashing them in himself. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office says 42-year-old Matthew…
Lang 3/23/25 A Coralville Police officer was injured in what the department is describing as a “donnybrook” at the city’s public library. According to arrest records, the Coralville library was…
Lang 3/23/25 The Oxford Fire Department has issued a special “thank you” to the person who brought pizza to firefighters helping fight a recent structure fire. According to dispatch records,…
UI Athletics news release Stephen Buchanan II Wins NCAA Championship PHILADELPHIA – University of Iowa graduate student Stephen Buchanan II won the 197-pound NCAA Championship on Saturday night, defeating Penn…
Iowa Heartlanders news release Heartlanders gutty in 3-1 win over Komets Coralville, Iowa – The Iowa Heartlanders evened the weekend series with a 3-1 win over the Fort Wayne Komets…
Lang 3/22/25 The recent stretch of dry weather led to multiple field fires in and around Johnson County on Saturday. The first such fire was reported just after 3:00 Saturday…
City of Cedar Rapids news release UPCOMING OVERNIGHT I-380 NORTHBOUND RAMP CLOSURES Iowa Department of Transportation, Cedar Rapids, IA – Weather permitting, there will be overnight ramp closures along I-380…
Lang 3/22/25 Iowa City Police have arrested a man they say intentionally vandalized a neighbor’s residence twice. 66-year-old Keith Yenter of Oakland Avenue was booked into the Johnson County Jail…
Lang 3/22/25 A Hiawatha woman is accused of plugging a toilet at University of Iowa Health Care Downtown, causing over $1,000 in damage. UI Police were called to the former…
Lang 3/22/25 A man accused of masturbating while naked on the streets of a North Liberty trailer park has been given a one-week jail sentence. The Iowa Division of Criminal…
Iowa Heartlanders news release Heartlanders unable to overcome deficit, fall to Komets, 4-1 Coralville, Iowa – The Iowa Heartlanders fell, 4-1, to the Fort Wayne Komets Friday at Xtream Arena.…
Lang 3/21/25 A bystander video of the arrest of an Iowa City man accused of threatening a UI student with a knife and trying to run down an Iowa City…
Nancy Holland reads book at the Iowa City Public Library’s Toddler Storytime, on Sept. 18, 2017. — Jav Ducker/Little Village Accompanied by a security team and members of Elon Musk’s…