Their opening statements. Statements. And the defendant repeatedly struck his mom over the head overernd over at least eight time absolutely unleasing on to his mother until she was deadthe prosecution argued the woman was defenseless when she diedthey also said cusic was addicted to drugs and attacked his mom to get her medicinethe defense argued cusic was addicted to druks but instead suffered from Mental Illness which theory as you listen to the evidence makes more sense or that he did it because he was out of his mindthe chief medical examiner also took the witness stand today she said cusic hit his mom at least eight times before she dieded the iowa chief medical examiner also took the stand today. She said ms. Cusic was hit with a crow bar 8 times before she died from her injuries. Trial will resume tomorrow morning at 8 30 am. Now a cbs 2 news update updatean outofstate inmate at the cinter of a smuggling vestigation at the state prison in anamosa, is now being punished. Punishe
Some organizations helping the community are being given the chance to get some help themselves themselvesthousands of federal dollars are going towards housing and Community Development projects in iowa city. City. Cbs 2 News Reporter Mellaney Moore was at a meeting where people learned how to be part of it. Two annual programs called the Community Development block partnership will benefit organizations like habitat for humanity. Humanity. Weve been successful the majority of years, the last 10, 15 years. Now iowa city is accepting fiscal year 2017 applications. Patton wants to try again. Again. We apply for the housing portion of it to try to subsidize the cost of the housing that we build. Habitat will apply for the home funding, which can be used for things like building affordable housing, which patton says is a need in the greater iowa city area. Area. Because of the university and the High Percentage of student renters that we have, its great for our economy, obviously, but hav
The next mayor of waterlrl, defeating former mayor tim hurley. Hurley. Turning to cedar falls now, there were only two names on the ballot for mayor tonight, but there are three men earning votes. Incumbent jon crews ended his reelectio bid after election nigig, but rules required his name stay on the ballot, despite endorsing jim brown. Meanwhile, Dave Halterman, who finished third last month, mounted a writein cacaaign to take the top post. Post. That writein campaign appears to have been unsuccessfulas crews endorsement of jim brown helped himail to an easy victory tonight. Tonight. A bit of a dreary day across eastern iowa. Iowa. Despite a few flakes, at least the heavy snow stayed about the rest of the night . Night . Chief meteorologist terry swails joins us now with your weatherfirst forecast, terry thanks. Turning to cedar rapids now. Now. A jury is now seated and Opening Statements delivered in a first degree murder t tal. Trial. This case is focused on a man accused of killin
Iowa medicaid recipients feel like their voices have finally been heard. Heard. Working together were seeing that we do have power, all the sudden that one person, one vote, that sticking together is starting to make a differenen. Federal administrators have put the states transition to privatelyrun program on a 60day wait. So people like rhonda have more time to digest all the new information. Information. This gives us more time to become informed on our insurance choices. Choices. This just gives them more time to do that, more time to make a decision and to talk with their physicians and find out just what the plan is. Ssator liz mathis says although the delay was a smart move. Recipients should know the transition will happen eventually. Eventually. We cant really stop an executive order from the governor but we can clearly create legislation that allows for oversight, thats the main thing that were gonna be working on. On. We want it to be thought out. Which is whatathis says wil
Its now been one month since most of Johnson County raised the minimum wage. Wage. Much of the talk about what would happen is now reality for workers and Business Owners. Owners. Cbs 2 News Reporter Mellaney Moore has this update now from North Liberty liberty ive talked with a few different Johnson County Business Owners today. Some are ininfavor of the increase and othehe are against it. It. The owner of the popcorn shoppe in North Liberty says he wrote to the city council telling them a minimum wage increase would hurt his business. Business. I did have to plan in advance of raising my prices a little bit, but dont feel its going to be enough. Young says he went along with the first increase to 8. 20 on november first. First. Ive already had to cut two rt timersrsbecause i said i just cant afford doing that. Some Business Owners in Johnson County say the increase might be hard at first, but believe that money will eventually come back to local businesses. I look at this area and al