State. Planners and the public are mounting the fug of mount cher nonroad. Its needed when you consider 20,000 cars travel this stroach road every day. Matt hammel join us live from mount vernon road. Matt . Reporter once upon a time, this was the grand gateway into cedar rapids, the sign of a thriving community. Many people could like to see it be that way again. Reporter the lincoln highway was the first coast to coast pavedthrough way in the paved thruway in the country. Today, it is 5 lanes of speeding traffic, fast food, houses, and empty lots. Patricia, on a walk with mikey, says she wont drive it and the area needs more retail. Some type of grocery store. Hopefully, it will slow traffic down. Its a shotgun approach. Reporter feedback from hundreds of neighbors who have called it ugly and neglected suggest better traffic flow and just a cleaner look as goals. At the end of the day, its the private Property Owners that will be the ones that develop new retail or whatever that is.
This was a grand gateway to cedar rapids and a sign of a thriving community. Many people want to see it that way. Again. The lincoln highway was the first coast to coast paved throughway in the country. Country. Varoooooooooooom today the Mount Vernon Road stretch is five lanes of speeding traffic fast food houses and empty lots. Patricia on a walk drive it and the area needs more retail. Retail. If there was a store. Some kind of grocery store, people might be going there you know and hopefully it would slow the traffic down. Stuffy stuff feedback from hundreds of neighbors who have called it ugly and neglected suggests better traffic flow more Diverse Businesses and just a cleaner look as goals. Goals. At the end of the day its the private Property Owners that are going to be the ones who develop retail or can help. Its gonna be tough true value manager phil cronin says hes worried changes in the form of road reporter phil cronin is worded changes in the way of Road Construction coul
Cbs 2 news now has the name nameof the man shot and killed by two Cedar Rapids Police officers. They responded to a domestic dispute at the valley high apartments on edgewood road northwest monday night. Thats where the officers found a woman with multiple stab wounds. They say 25yearold Markell Bivins was the suspect. The Iowa Department of Public Safety tells cbs 2 news the two officers shot bivins but their names are not being released. Bivins was taken to a local hospital he overnight. The victim is expected to recover. In a few hours day two of a corridor murder trial will start. David miller is accused of stabbing and strangling Sabrina Hustad janish. Janish. She was found dead at millers Benton County home last october. Jurors learned more tuesday about what happened right before millers arrest. A trooper testified that miller was waving down cars on a highway wearing nothing but his underwear and Authorities Say he matched the description of a car thief. When they pulled up the
Brother about her murder that remains unsolved 20 years later. The rumors about her life, is she secretly married and is her man after the million she will inherit . Only we have a fascinating glimpse into her world of her very first photo shoot. Michael jacksons little girl is all grown up and making news. Out of all the marriage rumors that ive been a part of, this is the one ive had to shut down more than eight times. It still wasnt enough. And now theyre trying to make my boyfriend look like hes mooching off of me when he has more of a job than i even do. He works more than i do. Paris boyfriends name is michael snoddy. Bloggers point to this band, the 26yearold drummer and onetime marriage, but look, paris just wears this silver snake on her ring finger. Me going down another spiral emotionally or another rumor that i died. Paris and michael have been dating for just six months, but its definitely intense. They did this photo shoot together five weeks ago. I set them in the shot a
Nine. Good evening, scott sanbron is off tonight. Im karen fuller. More heavy precipitation rained down on eastern iowa tod. Today. Weatherfirst chief meteorologist terry swails joins us now to show us where a gunshot rang out today at a Cedar Rapids High School midwest, a gunshot triggered a lockdown. Police said a 15yearold boy tried to kill himself outside of the auditorium. He was rushed to university of iowa hospital with life threateninginjuries. Students were kept inside of the building until authorities assured there was no threat to the safety of the students. One note about this story, fox 28 news doesnt report on but in this case, we considered the impact on students and parents and the community wanting answers. And experts said, be sensitive about the way we cover it. Welcome back a young person attempts suicide it increases the risk for others. Many in the Jefferson Community responded the way they did at the homecoming game. Students both turned out to the varsity footba