DYSART – As Americans across the country celebrated Independence Day last weekend, Club Dysart hosted the town’s annual Fourth of July celebration on Thursday and Friday with most of the activities held in City Park. Highlights included the perennially well-attended Dysart Lions Club ...
CEDAR RAPIDS – Karina Sue Cooper has been declared guilty of murder in the first degree. Right at 5 p.m. on Friday and following just over three hours of deliberation by the jury plus six days of testimony which began on Wednesday, July 2 – breaking for the Independence Day holiday – ...
CEDAR RAPIDS – Closing arguments are expected today in the first degree murder trial of Karina Cooper, bringing to a close a little more than six days of emotional and often intense courtroom proceedings. Cooper, 48, of Traer is charged with first-degree murder in the 2021 shooting death ...
CEDAR RAPIDS — Emotions ran high inside the Linn County Courthouse on Wednesday, July 2, as the first degree murder trial of Karina Cooper, a rural Traer resident accused of killing her husband Ryan on June 18, 2021, began with opening arguments from the prosecution and defense. Aaron ...
CEDAR RAPIDS - Scenes from the fourth day of Karina Cooper's first-degree murder trial taking place in Cedar Rapids at the Linn County Courthouse. All photos courtesy of The Gazette newspaper. Click here for Tama-Grundy Publishing's story on the trial's first day of testimony.
Telegraph Note: This story is online only due to the fast-moving nature of this issue, while also being published today, Friday, July 11, in the print edition of the Times-Republican newspaper. TOLEDO – A short and somewhat perplexing special meeting of the Tama County Board of Supervisors ...
TRAER – A North Tama teacher has been placed on administrative leave in the wake of her arrest on Monday, June 23, by the Tama County Sheriff’s Department at the Traer Municipal Swimming Pool for public intoxication and child endangerment. On June 24, Jennifer Alyssa Boerm, 40, of Traer ...
VINING – One of the best small town fireworks displays erupted nearly a week before the July Fourth holiday this year on June 28, as part of Vining’s semiannual Potluck Picnic and Fireworks. As dusk descended Saturday evening on the Czech Trail community nestled in the Bohemie Alps, ...
LA PORTE CITY — Union Community School District Board of Directors unanimously support moving forward with a focused, fiscally responsible facility improvement plan. This plan addresses core issues including outdated infrastructure, safety and security gaps, and programming limitations due to ...
GLADBROOK – The 2025 Tama County Fair Queen candidates were recently announced and this year include four outstanding candidates: Benton Community rising senior Belle Werner of Toledo; Class of 2025 homeschool graduate Lauren Keller of Gladbrook; South Tama rising senior Rylee Ridout of ...