Police in iowa city are once again looking for a suspect in an armed robbery. There were a string of armed robberies in iowa city in late july and early august. August. Sunday morning at about five witnesses told officers a black male walked into a mcdonalds with a handgun and left with cash and find a suspect and crimestoppers is offering a thousand dollar reward. Reward. At least four businesses in iowa city have been robbed over the last month and a half. Police say First American bank and culvers along highway one, pancheros on Riverside Drive and another mcdonalds along mormon trek have all been sites of armed robberies. Police havent said if any of those are related. A kalona woman is dead after an atv crash over the weekend. Weekend. Police responded to the crash at 100 shilo drive the crash report says the driver was 28yearold alex merrit from iowa city and he lost control of the atv on private property throwing him and 22year old Elizabeth Lenton from kalona off the atv. Lento
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Local community organization hopes its plans to open a nonprofit grocery store in a hard-hit Cedar Rapids neighborhood will help bring new activity and investment to the area.
A local community group is ramping up a fundraising campaign to open a grocery store in the urban core of Cedar Rapids, a key step in a neighborhood that was hard-hit during the 2008 flood, with scores of homes destroyed or leveled during city buyouts.
Establishing a non-profit grocery store in what was once an empty building in Cedar Rapids’ Time Check neighborhood would be a big deal. Opening the store is part of a larger effort by the group Matthew 25 to help residents and homeowners rebuild in the area on the northwest side of the city.