From the KCRG-TV9 Newsroom:
A case of measles has been confirmed in an unvaccinated infant in Polk County. The County Health Department says the child was too young to be vaccinated. The infant had recently been in an area where measles is spreading. No other cases have been reported in the Des Moines area.
The Poweshiek County sheriff’s office says the suspect in a drug investigation shot and killed himself after a standoff in Brooklyn. A number of agencies tried to execute a search warrant at the home of Skoky Strohm at 6 o’clock Thursday morning. Strohm went into an attic area, where negotiators tried to get him to surrender peacefully. But after a four-hour standoff, Strohm’s body was found in the attic.
Cedar Rapids police say they arrested a man in connection to a card skimming scheme involving a Cedar Rapids Family Dollar. An investigation uncovered Mykola Tymchenko of Quebec, Canada and his vehicle. Automated license plate readers led authorities to Marshalltown, where they arrested him yesterday. Prosecutors charged him with illegal use of a scanning device.
An expansion of a Cedar Rapids Charter school is one step closer after the Hiawatha City Council approved plans for a new location. CR Prep says it’s ready to begin renovations at the GoDaddy site. CR Prep principal Justin Blietz says the school initially planned to build on land across from its current campus. That building would have served 6th through 12th grades. Blietz says the current space at the former Transamerica building will be used by 9th graders next year as CR Prep expands into the high school level. But he adds the school is also still under contract for the land adjacent the campus on Edgewood Road and 42nd Street.
A full cell phone ban during the school day–that’s what students at Iowa City schools might be facing with a policy change. Right now, they can still check their phones in between classes and during lunch. One parent of three Iowa City students spoke in favor of the ban. She says she’s a teacher at the Cedar Rapids School District, and says the total phone ban at her school has been a good thing for her students.
