So the community is now lending a helping hand. Hand. Its a joint effort between Cedar Rapids Police and a new task force. Fox 28 News Reporter dora miller tells us how these new teams plan to work together. Together. In this connects against crime report. Report. The common denominator here is violence, so the plan is to attack it from all angles. This time, one group is addressing violence and the other is finding the root cause of it. It. We could say were like other communities because that is true, other communities around the country are also seeing incidents of gun violence on the rise, that might make us feel better, but it doesnt solve the problem. So police and the community are joining forces. The Police Community action team or pcat dressed in blues handling violence on the streets. Streets. They will focus on identifying crime trends and also address quality of life issues. The other out of public view but taking another approach. Approach. There will be individuals who ta
Through the night. New tonight at six managers at an eastern iowa Ethanol Company face multiple charges of federal tax violations. Rapids grand jury indicted the owner and general manager of Permeate Refining in hopkinton. According to court documents, randy less and Darrell Smith allegedly withheld federal income, Social Security and medicare taxes from employees but didnt pay those taxes to the irs. Prosecutors say both failed to pay more than 420thousand dollars worth of taxes in 2009 and 2011. Developing right now, the university of iowa will be paying more than 200thousand dollars to settle a gender discrimination lawst filed by a male track coach. Mike scott, was already working as a volunteer assistant in the track program, when he applied for an open assistant coaching position. Position. Scott says he was warned by another coach that administrators wanted to hire a female coach. His attorneys uncovered email in which head coach Layne Anderson discussed rewriting the jobs descr
In April 2021, the board overseeing Colorado’s Jeffco Public Schools was about to hire Tracy Dorland as its new superintendent. But first, an urgent matter demanded their attention — closing Allendale Elementary School. The district’s new chief thought spring was too late for such a drastic move: Parents had already made plans for the fall […]