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INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (KCRG) - Law enforcement officials in Buchanan County have released more information about a crash that took place on Monday evening. At around 7:45 p.m. on June 27, the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office was sent to a report of a crash in the 2600 block of Brandon Diagonal Boulevard, located south of Independence. Deputies believe, following an investigation, that a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix that was traveling southbound lost control, spinning sideways and colliding with a northbound 2021 Can-Am Defender all-terrain vehicle. Both vehicles ended up on the side of the road with significant damage, with the ATV on its side.

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa –A not guilty plea to a charge of “sextortion” is entered by a former Buchanan County sheriff’s deputy. Klint Michael Bentley, 37 of Fairbank, is now scheduled to stand trial beginning September 21 for Extortion, Non-Felonious Misconduct in Office, and Accepting a Bribe. Bentley...

The Five Seasons Ski Team held a show on the Cedar River on Sunday evening near Ellis Park. Show You Care: Cedar Rapids teen writes letters to help fellow LGBTQ+ youth. A Cedar Rapids teenager is being recognized for his work helping LGBTQ teens, especially those who feel like they don't belong in their faith.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Michael Franken said he did not serve his nation as a U.S. Navy admiral for a person flying a profane anti-Biden flag that he spotted on the campaign trail this week. Republicans said that means he doesn’t respect freedom of speech. Franken spoke Thursday during a campaign stop about seeing the […] The post Iowa Republicans criticize Senate candidate Michael Franken’s objection to anti-Biden flag appeared first on Iowa Capital Dispatch.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A Northeast Iowa man is sent to federal prison for drugs and guns. Kaleb James Huffman, 23 of Fayette, pleaded guilty in December 2021 to possession of a firearm by a drug user. Law enforcement says it searched Huffman's home in December 2020 and found a...

WINNESHIEK COUNTY, Iowa — A Fort Atkinson man is now facing charges of attempted murder and felony domestic abuse for assaulting a woman at the Turkey River. Authorities say Robert Kruse, 18, took a female along a remote area of the Turkey River and seriously assaulted her, choked and forced her under the water.

Fleeing the congestion and mayhem of New York City in the early summer of 1893, Antonin Dvorák, along with his wife and six children, alighted from a train in the little Bohemian settlement of Spillville, Iowa. Perhaps by then his worldwide fame had spread even there, but this quiet town in the middle of nowhere… The post Antonín Dvorák: Composing Music of Joy in the Kitchen appeared first on VoegelinView.

INDEPENDENCE, Iowa (KCRG) - Multiple people were injured in a crash involving a car and a UTV in Buchanan County Monday evening, according to the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said it happened in the 2600 block of Brandon Diagonal Boulevard, southwest of Independence. The sheriff’s office has not...