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whoradio.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
Photo: Alina555 / E+ / Getty Images(Cedar Rapids, IA) -- Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell says the notion that voters were confused by ballot language in a 2021 casino referendum is insulting. A hearing was held Wednesday in Mount Pleasant on a petition filed by Riverside Casino to reverse approval of a casino license for Linn County. Riverside contends the ballot language was misleading.
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woc1420.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
Photo: gorodenkoff / iStock / Getty Images(Davenport, IA) -- A defense lawyer told a Scott County jury that just because their clients were drug users didn't make them murderers or arsonists. A first-degree murder trial is underway for two people charged in a double homicide last year in Davenport. Prosecutors say Devon Braet and Adriana Blake killed a couple they had been staying with in January of last year and started a fire to cover up the crime. Photo Credit: Getty Images
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whoradio.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
Photo: anastas_ / iStock / Getty Images(Des Moines, IA) -- A Iowa State Senator wants the Supreme Court to reverse it's 2015 decision allowing same-sex marriage. District 29 Senator Sandy Salmon is introducing a bill that says the Supreme Court decision that state bans on same-sex marriage were in violation of the Constitution's 14th amendment is novel, and flawed. Salmon's resolution calls for SCOTUS to reverse the Obergefell v.
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600wmtradio.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
(Cedar Rapids, IA) -- Cedar Rapids teachers are getting a raise. The District is approving a 3-percent base wage increase for the 2025-26 school year. The total cost of all salaries and benefits for teachers in the CRCSD will be $103 million. The District recently reduced 76 teaching positions, but reassigned all 60 teachers affected. Photo Credit: Getty Images
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whoradio.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
(Clinton, IA) -- Drivers crossing the Mississippi River on U.S. Highway 30 between Clinton, Iowa and Fulton, Illinois will need to take another route for the next few days. The bridge will is closed through Friday as crews repave the bridge. A detour directs travelers to the Mark Morris Bridge a couple of miles upriver. Photo credit: Getty Images
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woc1420.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
(Rock Island, IL) -- A third man is going to prison in connection with the fire that destroyed the Rock Island Livestock Auction Barn last year. William Kosgard IV will spend three years behind bars after pleading guilty to felony arson. Kadon Svec and Matt Wooddell also plead guilty and are serving three years sentences for arson. Photo Credit: Getty Images
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whoradio.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
Photo: WQAD News 8(Davenport, IA) -- The Iowa Public Information Board will decide next week whether to release the full criminal investigative report on the partial collapse of a Davenport apartment building that killed three men two years ago. A seven-page summary of the report was released by the state Department of Public Safety last month. Scott County Attorney Kelly Cunningham cited the report as reason for not criminally charging owner Andrew Wold in connection with the collapse.
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whoradio.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
Photo: Motortion / iStock / Getty Images(Iowa City, IA) -- A federal judge is ordering four international students at the University of Iowa to either reveal their identities or withdraw a lawsuit challenging the federal government's termination of their student visas. The court denied a motion to maintain the student's anonymity which their lawyers says protects them from deportation. The government says the students lost their visas due to criminal records.
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600wmtradio.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
Photo: Nodar Chernishev / iStock / Getty Images(Cedar Rapids, IA) -- A local developer is looking to rezone a Wellington Heights property for use as a grocery store. The Cedar Rapids neighborhood was left without any grocery options after HyVee closed their store on First Avenue Northeast last summer. The new grocery store would be in a residential property on Fifth Avenue Southeast, about ten blocks from the former HyVee store. The building operated as a grocery store in the mid twentieth-century.
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whoradio.iheart.com | Craig Michaels
Photo: Tanaonte / iStock / Getty Images(Davenport, IA) -- With a Wednesday deadline looming for Americans to have REALID or an accepted alternative as an option to board a plane, most Iowans are ready. The Iowa Department of Transportation says 76% of residents have upgraded to the Driver's License with a star in the corner. Nationwide that number is 56%. There are 15 other acceptable forms of ID travelers can use as an alternative, including a passport, military ID, or a U.S. travel card.
