CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – A juvenile male was shot and killed in Cedar Rapids on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident. No other information about the victim, including the boy’s age, was released. Police described the shooting as a “targeted incident.”

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA (IRN) – Donations to Iowa’s Fish/Wildlife fund, informally called the Chickadee Checkoff, fell nearly 15 percent last year but have been gradually shrinking since the fund was created in the early 1980s. Study and support for Iowa’s nongame animals, including songbirds, turtles, frogs, owls, and salamanders, is needed more than ever as many species are declining in numbers and facing extinction, mostly because of lost habitat.

MASON CITY, IA (IRN) – For more than three months, all of the glass and plastic in Mason City’s curbside recycling bins haven’t been recycled at all. Instead, the city has been forced to dump glass and plastic recyclables at the Landfill of North Iowa because the Mason City Recycling Center no longer accepts glass or plastic. Officials with the recycling center say the reason they stopped accepting glass and plastic is simple. There’s no market for it, and they can’t store it.

EVANSTON, IL (IRN) − A miserable night for Iowa men’s basketball at Northwestern reached a boiling point at the 7:30 mark in the second half Sunday. Hawkeye coach Fran McCaffery was upset about a missed 10-second violation against Northwestern, and his words with the referees resulted in a double technical foul and an ejection. Less than three minutes later, junior Patrick McCaffery was charged with a technical foul of his own after disagreeing with a shooting foul called against him. Northwestern’s free throws extended its lead to 22 points and the Wildcats rolled to an 80-60 Big Ten Conference victory.