The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating credit card skimming devices that were discovered this week on the registers at two Family Dollar locations, according to a press release from the department.
A Cedar Rapids man convicted in a 2015 shooting, has been sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for trafficking meth near a school in southeast Cedar Rapids.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to over 7 years for possessing gun after he had previous conviction for distributing heroin.
A district court judge on Tuesday sided with a landowner group and found a North Dakota law related to underground storage of carbon dioxide to be unconstitutional. The case could impact a controversial pipeline project proposed by Iowa-based Summit Carbon Solutions.
A former federal prosecutor has asked the Iowa Supreme Court to rehear oral arguments in a case filed against the Cedar Rapids City Council for alleged violations of the state’s open meetings law.
University of Iowa Health Care has agreed to pay $4.2 million to the mother of a 38-year-old Johnson County man who — while experiencing a psychotic break in the emergency room — was placed in such extreme restraints that he suffered a heart attack and “catastrophic and permanent brain injuries.”
States will have access to federal immigration information for the purposes of determining voters’ citizenship, and the federal government will have access to those states’ driver’s license information under a settlement reached in a lawsuit brought by Iowa.
Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies.
One person was injured in an officer-involved shooting on Thanksgiving Day after state troopers responded to a report of gunfire at a home.
An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday after police say he robbed an Iowa City Casey’s Sunday while claiming to have a gun.
The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed an appellate opinion in a case against the Cedar Rapids City Council and affirmed that members were legally allowed to enter into closed session to interview a potential city clerk candidate.
A mother, during a sexual abuser’s sentencing, said there is “no pain greater” for a parent than knowing their child was harmed, especially by someone they trusted and treated as family. “You didn’t just break the law — you broke hearts and you broke trust.”
The city’s housing and nuisance manager pleaded last week to a lesser charge for forging a receipt for pet medications to an insurance company. He received deferred judgment Tuesday.
Two Cedar Rapids speed enforcement cameras that the Iowa Department of Transportation approved for use in October will begin enforcement operations again on Jan. 1.
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