From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom:
Two newly released analyses of the impact of a Cedar Rapids casino forecasts a net gaming revenue of at least $116 million in 2028, with a little more than half coming from new gambling revenue. State gambling regulators are to decide the future of Cedar Crossing to build a facility that would include a restaurant, entertainment center, 700 slot machines and 22 table games along the Cedar River in Cedar Rapids. One report says the casino will have a $165 million impact on Linn County with 871 direct and indirect workers. And both reports say the Riverside casino will take the hardest hit… losing anywhere from $16 to 34 million in gaming revenue.
Police say they’ve identified the victim of a suspicious death. It’s 33-year-old Victoria Skarda of Iowa City. This comes after police responded to a home in the 300 block of Camden Road for a medical call yesterday morning. Police have not said how Skarda died. Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward for information.
Waterloo police officers arrested a second man in connection with a shooting that hurt three people on New Year’s Day. Three people had gunshot wounds; they were in a car in the parking lot near SAC’s Neighborhood Pub. They are all expected to survive. Court documents say Taevon Washington and Sadorieous Collins were seen on surveillance video at the bar. They were later seen walking up to the vehicle before Collins fired several times. Police arrested Washington Monday.
Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,500r reward for information in a homicide investigation in Waterloo. Police found Tommie Lee Johnson, Jr. dead in an alley near the 700 block of Fowler Street on December 7. Anyone with information should call police or Crime Stoppers.
A Chicago-based nonprofit law firm has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register over its final Iowa Poll before the November election. The poll showed Vice President Kamala Harris with a lead of three percentage points over President Donald Trump. He won Iowa with 57 percent of the vote to Harris’ 43 percent. The Center for American Rights filed the lawsuit on behalf of a subscriber, calling the poll misleading. Trump filed a similar lawsuit against the Register last month.
