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Big Changes Ahead for Busy Cedar Rapids Road
Plans have been unveiled which should relieve some of the traffic congestion on one of Cedar Rapids busiest roadways. I think it will also make the area much more inviting.
The City of Cedar Rapids has unveiled plans to raise a three-quarter mile stretch of Collins Road, in the Lindale Mall area. The road will be raised by as much as 13 feet. Lindale Drive, which currently extends from Marion and crosses Blairs Ferry Road before eventually ending at Twixt Town Road just feet from Collins Road, will be lowered up to six feet and extended to go under Collins.
This year marks the 95th anniversary of the first nationally recognized celebration of African American history and culture in the United States. Carter Woodson, born in 1875, the son of slaves and a former sharecropper himself, enrolled at the University of Chicago where he received a master s degree and went on to become the second person of color to earn a doctorate from Harvard University.
A Manchester man convicted of murdering a Cedar Rapids teenager more than 40 years ago has hired a new lawyer.
Chicagoland Attorney Kathleen Zellner has confirmed to our news partner, KCRG, that her office is now representing Jerry Burns – and plans to appeal Burns’ conviction.
Burns was found guilty last February in the murder of 18-year old Michelle Martinko of Cedar Rapids, who was found dead in her parents’ car in the Westdale Mall parking lot in Cedar Rapids in December 1979.
Burns was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole last August. His lawyers filed a motion for a new trial based on new evidence, but the judge denied the motion.
CEDAR RAPIDS Convicted killer Jerry Burns, who fatally stabbed 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in 1979, has hired a Chicago-area lawyer who received national attention for representing a man featured in Netflix’s documentary series “Making of a Murderer.”
Court appeal records state Kathleen Zellner, who represented Steven Avery in the true crime documentary, and associate Nicholas Curran, who both practice in Downers Grove, Ill., have joined the appeal team, along with Elizabeth Araguas and Frank Nidey of Nidey Erdahl Meier & Araguas in Cedar Rapids.
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office confirmed that no appeal has been filed at this time. The deadline is Feb. 16.