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Hawkeyes drop game against Miami of Ohio

UI Athletics news release Buies Creek, N.C. – The University of Iowa softball team fell to Miami (Ohio), 4-1, in the final game of the Campbell Invitational at Amanda Littlejohn Stadium. The Hawkeyes finished the weekend 3-2 and...Read More

Benton County woman arrested after allegedly entering stranger’s Iowa City hotel room and stripping

Lang 2/22/26 Iowa City Police have arrested a Benton County woman they say entered another person’s hotel room and started stripping. Officers were called to the Highlander Hotel on Highlander Place just after 11:45 Saturday night after...Read More

Coralville woman faces multiple charges after allegedly making threats while wielding a knife

Lang 2/22/26 A Coralville woman has been arrested after allegedly threatening other people while wielding a knife, and stabbing a door that had children hiding behind it. 23-year-old Jada Newson was booked into the Johnson County Jail...Read More

Texas woman charged with child endangerment in Coralville after allegedly driving drunk with toddler in her car

Lang 2/22/26 A Texas woman has been arrested in Coralville after allegedly driving drunk with a toddler in her car. Coralville Police pulled over 31-year-old Maua Lumona of Houston after she was reportedly observed failing to maintain...Read More

Johnson County Supervisors chair order flags at half-staff in honor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson

Lang 2/22/26 Johnson County Supervisors chair Jon Green has ordered the county’s flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died on Tuesday at the age of 84. Green made the...Read More

Hawkeye softball sweeps Saturday

UI Athletics news release Buies Creek, N.C. – The University of Iowa softball team swept day two of the Campbell Invitational, blanking Radford, 4-0, and beating Campbell, 10-4, at Amanda Littlejohn Stadium on Saturday. HOW IT HAPPENED Game...Read More

Heartlanders have best attendance of regular season and earn a point in 3-2 OTL

Iowa Heartlanders news release Coralville, Iowa — Over 4,000 fans attended the Iowa Heartlanders’ Cornfed Country Night, pres. by Iowa Corn and saw the Heartlanders earn a point in a 3-2 overtime decision to the Cincinnati Cyclones Saturday...Read More

Johnson County Emergency Management posts dozens of photos of Wednesday’s vegetation fire west of Iowa City

Lang 2/21/26 Johnson County Emergency Management has posted dozens of photos from the vegetation fire that ravaged areas west of Iowa City on Wednesday. The post on the Johnson County Homeland Security & Emergency Management Agency Facebook...Read More

Lengthy I-80 police chase ends with crash in Iowa City

Lang 2/21/26 A police chase that stretched for at least 30 miles on Interstate 80 ended when the suspect crashed their vehicle in Iowa City. Dispatch records indicate the chase was first reported to the Johnson County...Read More

Hawkeye clinch series with Florida Atlantic with 6-1 win

UI Athletic news release BOCA RATON, Fla. – The University of Iowa baseball team clinched the series over Florida Atlantic with a 6-1 victory at FAU Baseball Stadium on Saturday night. Sophomore Jaron Bleeker earned his first win of the...Read More

Hawkeyes advance all 10 to National Championship

UI Athletics news release INDIANOLA, Iowa – The top ranked University of Iowa women’s wrestling team advanced all 10 wrestlers to the NCAA National Championships on Saturday, with eight winning individual regional titles. In total across both days,...Read More

Transient arrested in Iowa City porch pirating investigation

Lang 2/21/26 A local transient has been arrested as part of an Iowa City porch pirating investigation. 61-year-old Randolph McClaine was taken into custody just before 11:00 Thursday night at the WET shelter on Southgate Avenue. He...Read More

Coralville man accused of leading Johnson County deputies on high-speed chase

Lang 2/21/267 A Coralville man is accused of leading Johnson County deputies on a slow-speed chase after originally being clocked at speeds over 100 miles per hour. According to arrest records, 48-year-old Scott Stange of Holiday Road...Read More

National News

Former Prince Andrew released “under investigation” following arrest over Epstein ties

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew and the younger brother of King Charles III, has been released by British police after his arrest on Thursday for suspicion of misconduct in public office. Mountbatten-Windsor was released “under...Read More

Details of those involved in California avalanche near Lake Tahoe that killed 8 on skiing expedition

A backcountry ski trip in California’s Sierra Nevada turned tragic Tuesday when an avalanche near Lake Tahoe killed eight people and left a ninth missing and presumed dead. Several of the victims were parents connected to Sugar...Read More

Billionaire and former Epstein associate Les Wexner deposed by House Oversight Committee

Billionaire retail executive Les Wexner appeared for a closed-door congressional deposition in Ohio on Wednesday, answering questions about his decades-long association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The session, led by the House Oversight Committee, follows the...Read More