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Bret Nilles has been chosen to lead Linn County Democrats for a fifth termThe group’s Central Committee reelected Nilles as executive board chairman on Monday.“We appreciate the support from the central committee in what we’ve been able to achieve in Linn County,” Nilles said.

More than 350,000 Iowans have tested positive for COVID-19 since the coronavirus first appeared in Iowa last March.The state added 591 new COVID-19 cases Tuesday, according to data from the Iowa Department of Public Health, bringing the total of Iowa’s cases to 350,326.

CEDAR RAPIDS — About three years ago, the Cedar Rapids Police Department brought on a crisis intervention counselor to work as a law enforcement liaison and help officers with calls involving people with mental health issues.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Community advocates are publicly calling on the city to permanently revoke Charles A. Davisson’s permit to lease property in Cedar Rapids, saying he is “not fit to be a landlord” given housing code violations, police calls, shootings and other issues surrounding a Bever Avenue SE property.

When 4,000 people arrive in 1,000 cars to see your live Nativity, it’s a sign.A sign that especially during COVID, people are looking for alternative ways to celebrate the most important seasons in the life of the church.

It was a Saturday — March 2, 1935 — that the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported artists Grant Wood and Sara Sherman Maxon were to be married that night in Minneapolis.Maxon was at least seven years older than Wood — who was 44 at the time — and an artist in her own right, as well as a singer, teacher and pioneer in regional music.

Passion Plays — the dramatic representations of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ — began in medieval Europe as a way to teach a largely illiterate population the biblical story.

Though dialing a full 10-digit phone number may seem like an inconvenience, crisis intervention providers in the Corridor say that small sacrifice could make a huge difference in the life of someone in crisis.

DES MOINES — Iowa lawmakers, who said they were looking to the future in approving bills to expand broadband connectivity and permit the use of technology that could facilitate the use of cryptocurrency, engaged in 23rd century philosophy in discussion of another.

MINNEAPOLIS — The video of George Floyd gasping for breath was essentially Exhibit A as the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee on the Black man’s neck went to trial Monday on charges of murder and manslaughter.