From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom:
Cedar Rapids police are investigating what they believe is a double murder and suicide on the city’s northeast side. It started with police finding the body of a man in Noelridge Park just after noon yesterday. The investigation led them to a home nearby, in the 4400 block of Regal Ave Northeast, between Harding Middle School and Summit Schools. There, police found two adults dead inside.
A jury found Cameron Leonard guilty on all five counts he was facing, including first degree murder for the shooting death of Myron Snyder. That conviction of murder in the first degree means an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole. Investigators said Snyder was dropping off food at an apartment on Sherman Street Northeast in Cedar Rapids, when he encountered two men: Cameron Leonard and Maurice Brown. Police say all three fired weapons. The Door Dash delivery person, Myron Snyder, and Maurice Brown both died. The judge did not set a date for sentencing.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is emphasizing the importance of trade, despite a trade war looming as the Trump Administration imposes new tariffs against some of America’s biggest ag consumers. Yesterday, Naig told farmers in Riverside that he hopes the tariffs imposed by President Trump will be short lived. Soybean farmers were hard hit in 2019 when the first Trump Administration imposed higher tariffs on China, which reciprocated with tariffs on American goods.
The lawmaker who helped create the community college system in Iowa has died. Jack Kibbie, an Emmetsburg farmer who served as State Senate President for six years starting in 2005, was first elected to the state legislature in 1960. Governor Kim Reynolds has ordered flags in the state to fly at half staff until sunset to honor him. Jack Kibbbie was 95.
The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program is the latest to lose federal funding from cuts by the Trump Administration. The program is set to lose almost $1 million in grant money. One of the biggest programs the International Writing Program hosts is the fall residency program. The usual 30 to 40 international writers that attend the residency program each fall will drop to about 12 writers. The International Writing Program has also been forced to cancel its annual summer program for international and national teens.
