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Following a three-month investigation, a 35-year-old Cedar Rapids man has been arrested on charges stemming from an accident on County Home Road that killed two people.

Iowa traffic deaths jumped to at least 400 casualties last year, a figure that is 26 percent higher than recorded in 2015.

Four people from Iowa were killed in a single-engine plane crash Saturday night in Illinois.

Traffic crashes kill more than one person a day in 2016.

Pella police say three people lost their lives and two were injured when a pickup truck barged through a front door at a Walmart store in Pella.

Police have also released the names of the two people killed in the weekend crash on I-380.

Two people were killed overnight Saturday when a vehicle collided with a Cedar Rapids Police vehicle doing traffic control for a previous accident.

The Marion Fire Department is making waves nationally. The department is one of 160 from across the country to receive the 2015 Life Safety Achievement Award.

An early morning fire on Cedar Rapids northwest side killed one man and injured another person.

While neighboring states have seen the number of fatalities drop substantially this year, Iowa has been going in the wrong direction.