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UI announces 4 football staff hires

UI Athletics news release IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa Moon Family Head Football Coach Kirk Ferentz announced the hiring of four new staff members on Friday. Jay Norvell will serve as the senior football analyst (offense), Kevin Spencer will be special teams...Read More

Iowa City Federation of Labor endorses Johnson County supervisor, county attorney candidates

Lang 2/6/26 The Iowa City Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) has issued a pair of local political endorsements. The ICFL on Friday endorsed Rachel Zimmermann Smith for re-election as Johnson County Attorney and Rod Sullivan for reelection to...Read More

UI Dance Marathon gets underway tonight

Lang 2/6/26 It’s once again Dance Marathon weekend at the University of Iowa. From tonight at 7 to Saturday night at 7 participants will stand or dance for 24 straight hours at the Iowa Memorial Union as...Read More

Suspect accused of shocking himself after breaking into downtown Iowa City electrical box to steal copper

Lang 2/6/26 A suspect is accused of shocking himself while trying to steal copper from a downtown Iowa City electrical box. Iowa City Police say 32-year-old Travis Tillman of Maggard Street was observed accessing the electrical panel...Read More

Traffic stop near Morse turns up stolen license plates

Lang 2/6/26 Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies say a traffic stop near Morse turned up a pair of stolen license plates inside a North Liberty man’s vehicle. 41-year-old Dustin Stucker of the Golfview Estates manufactured housing community was...Read More

Iowa City woman accused of pulling gun on restaurant worker she allegedly targeted for online harassment

Lang 2/6/26 An Iowa City woman is accused of driving to the workplace of a person she had allegedly targeted for online harassment and pulling a gun on him. 21-year-old Shantoria Cooper of Triple Crown Lane was...Read More

Suspect in Ped Mall shooting that injured 2 given deferred judgment

Lang 2/6/26 The suspect in a 2024 shooting on the Ped Mall that left two people injured has been given a deferred judgment as part of a plea deal. That was the ruling handed down by Judge...Read More

North Liberty Police conducting tobacco compliance checks

Lang 2/6/26 North Liberty Police are conducting compliance checks on local establishments as part of the I-PLEDGE program. I-PLEDGE is a program developed by the Iowa Department of Revenue to educate local retailers and to enforce Iowa’s...Read More

Iowa Senate panel rejects bill aimed at protecting seniors in nursing homes

Lang 2/5/26 An Iowa Senate panel has rejected a bill aimed at protecting seniors in nursing homes. Current Iowa law allows such care facilities to ban residents or their families from installing cameras in residents’ rooms to...Read More

Republican-led Iowa House advancing bill that would end school vaccine requirements

Hunter 02/05/26 Legislation advancing in the Republican-led Iowa House would end immunization requirements for students to attend school. The Gazette reports The House Education Committee advanced the bill late Wednesday night, on a 14-9 vote, with two...Read More

Coralville man on parole faces litany of charges

Hunter 02/05/26 A Coralville man on probation faces a slew of new charges, including allegedly using stolen gift cards. According to court records, 30-year-old Joel Meadows of Spring Rose Circle was arrested on Monday. He was reportedly...Read More

Republican Senate members reveal education funding package

Hunter 02/05/26 State Senate Republicans have revealed their education package, proposing a 1.75 percent increase in per pupil funding. Iowa’s News Now reports the GOP believes that translates to a $145 increase per student, potentially raising the...Read More

Iowa City Regina cancels classes due to high absenteeism

Hunter 02/05/26 Iowa City Regina has canceled classes for today and tomorrow due to what they say is an exceptionally high and rapidly increasing rate of illness. According to the school’s website, overall PreK-12 there are 248...Read More

National News

Search for Nancy Guthrie continues as FBI offers $50,000 reward for information into her disappearance

The search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of ‘TODAY’ co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, intensified Thursday as investigators released a clearer sequence of events from the night she vanished and confirmed that federal authorities are now fully involved....Read More

Minneapolis activist arrested on federal charges for alleged threats, cyberstalking ICE officers

Federal authorities arrested Kyle Wagner, a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident, on Thursday on charges of cyberstalking and transmitting threats against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, according to prosecutors. The criminal complaint was filed Tuesday and unsealed...Read More

Man sentenced to life in prison in assassination attempt of Pres. Trump at Florida golf course

Ryan Routh, the man convicted of attempting to assassinate then–presidential candidate Donald Trump at a Florida golf course in 2024, has been sentenced to life in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon delivered the sentence Wednesday...Read More