Linn County, IA

Davenport, IOWA – According to the police officials, the 20-year-old suspect was arrested and taken into custody on Tuesday. His name is Kazius Childress and he is a suspect in two homicides which occurred in Cedar Rapids in January of 2022. Authorities said the 20-year-old suspect was wanted out...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) -A Cedar Rapids man facing multiple murder charges will appear in court Wednesday morning at 9:30am. 20-year-old Kazius Jarekaiser Childress is charged in the shooting deaths of 19-year-old Cordal Lewis, and 22-year-old Kavon Johnson. Lewis was killed on January 27th. Johnson was killed the next day,...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Cedar Rapids police say the large police presence in southwest Cedar Rapids on Tuesday night was a standoff that lasted until nearly midnight. Police said they responded to a call for service in the 3500 block of Remington Street southwest, just after 7 p.m. The...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - (Iowa's News Now) — A man arrested Tuesday night in Davenport on charges out of Cedar Rapids is back in Linn County. Linn County jail records show Kazius Childress, 20, is now in custody at the jail. He's expected to have his first court appearance Thursday morning.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – A man wanted for two killings in Linn County has been arrested in Davenport. U.S. Marshals apprehended Kazius Jarekaiser Childress, 20, and took him to the Scott County Jail on Tuesday. Childress was wanted on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of going armed with intent.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - The man charged with shooting a Linn County sheriff’s deputy while robbing a Casey’s gas station wants the trial pushed back. Stanley Donahue is charged with attempted murder and robbery. His trial was set for July, but he’s now waived his right to...

Linn County, IOWA – According to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office, this incident occurred right before 2 p.m. Saturday. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office, the Linn County Sheriff’s Rescue 57, Central City Fire Department, Center Point Ambulance Service and Linn County Conversation Officers responded to the report of a missing female tubing on the Wapsipinicon River.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - On Tuesday, U.S. Marshals arrested a man in Davenport who is wanted on multiple murder charges in Linn County. 20-year-old Kazius Jarekaiser Childress is a suspect in two Cedar Rapids homicides - those of Cordal Lewis and Kavon Johnson - both of whom died of gunshot wounds. Police said both were targeted cases.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - (Iowa's News Now) — The man accused of shooting a Linn County deputy during a convenience store robbery last summer wants his trial pushed back again. Stanley Donahue's attempted murder trial is set for July 12. Now he says a potential start witness in the state's case should be prohibited from identifying him at trial, saying the witness may have initially misidentified Donahue as the robber.

COVID-19 cases are climbing again across Iowa. Of course, it's nowhere near the record levels from January. New case counts have gone up every week for a month now and local hospitals are taking another look at mask policies. CDC data used to monitor COVID locally shows COVID case counts...

Linn County, IA – According to the LCSO, this incident occurred right after 10 p.m. late Sunday night. Linn County Sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop a vehicle at Dows St and Main St in Ely for failing to stop at a stop sign. The responding deputy activated his...

Local food banks tell Iowa's News Now they're struggling to keep up with demand right now. Supply shortages and inflation have grocery costs going up for everyone. The director of Olivet Neighborhood Mission's Food Pantry in Linn County tells Iowa's News Now the pantry is seeing a near-constant flow of people coming in asking for help putting food on the table, including a lot of new faces.

The universal free school meal programs that were originally introduced in March 2020 as the pandemic began, are set to expire in June 2022. This means, that the free breakfast and lunch meals that were offered to all students the last two years, will not be extended for the 2022-2023 school year.