The Linn County Sheriff's Department is investigating a fatal accident on County Home Road and Stone Road near Whittier.

Despite Mayor Ian Cullis' protests, the Robins City Council is expected Monday to award a new contract for city engineering to Snyder & Associates.

A car is submerged upside down in a creek on the south side of Highway 30 near the Atkins turnoff, west of Cedar Rapids, according to reports from the scene.