From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom:
The search continues this morning for a child last seen in the Coralville Reservoir spillway during a class field trip at Lake Macbride State Park yesterday afternoon. Johnson County rescue teams say they did recover one adult victim in the reservoir. The Iowa City School District says counselors and support staff will be available at Borlaug Elementary during school today. The district says it will cancel all ‘School of the Wild’ trips for the foreseeable future.
Iowa’s Division of Criminal Investigations says it’s investigating an officer-involved shooting in Cedar Rapids. Police say they were originally responding to a “call for service” in an area near the intersection of H Avenue and Oakland Road Northeast. DCI did not release any other information by early Tuesday night.
Nearly half of the members of the Center for Intellectual Freedom Advisory Council have resigned. And the Gazette newspaper reports those who are leaving the council also cast a “vote of no confidence” in the Board of Regents Saturday. The taxpayer-funded center opened in the spring, established by legislative Republicans with the goal of combating what they describe as liberal indoctrination on campus. But the center has faced a series of problems, including low enrollment and now a mass resignation. The eleven advisory council members who resigned are all out-of-state professors appointed by Governor Kim Reynolds.
A newborn baby girl is safe after someone surrendered her under Iowa’s Safe Haven Act. The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services says she was born on September 8. She is now in the department’s care and will stay with a foster family while awaiting adoption. She is the 82nd baby safely surrendered since the law took effect more than 20 years ago. Under the law, parents can leave babies up to 90 days old at designated locations—like hospitals—with no questions asked.
The Iowa City Community School District still plans to create a community board to help decide boundary changes. The board includes principals, teachers, business leaders, parents and students. In August, the board hired consultants to study enrollment projections and elementary school boundaries. The district is looking to cut nearly $8 million from its budget for next school year.
