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WATERLOO – A 60-year-old Waterloo West High School teacher was arrested Friday after police found he was involved in a possible sex offense incident with a female student. Waterloo Police arrested Michael Kenneth Lyons at his home,  2124 Casper Ave. and are charging him with two counts of sexual exploitation by a school employee, aggravated […]

IOWA CITY — Organizers have canceled the remaining days of a “Humans vs. Zombies” game that was part of the University of Iowa’s RiverFest 2011 after a player was hit by a car Tuesday afternoon. The name of the player hit, whether that person was a UI student and details of the accident were not immediately available […]

Today, when a judge orders someone not to have contact with another person, it means a lot more than don’t knock on their door, call their phone or send them a text message. Contact, in today’s tech-savvy society, also covers the virtual realm, meaning messages, comments and even photos directed at a person on social […]

Stephanie M. Rose, the U.S attorney for the Northern District of Iowa in Cedar Rapids, has been recommended to fill a vacancy on the federal District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. Stephanie Rose Sen. Tom Harkin recommended Rose as well as Karen Romano, am Iowa trial judge and former Polk County prosecutor, and […]

By Chris Earl The Gazette CEDAR RAPIDS — Six weeks after the first reports of hazing incidents involving members of the wrestling team at Lisbon Community High School, one wrestling mother is sharing her family’s story. The woman, who does not want to give her name, said her son was a victim of hazing as […]