The crash with injuries happened outside 223 E. Post Rd., south of Indian Creak, near Cedar Rapids, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
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The crash with injuries happened outside 223 E. Post Rd., south of Indian Creak, near Cedar Rapids, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
The judge on Friday heard arguments from attorneys in two separate lawsuits challenging the new state law, which also bans the teaching of gender identity and sexual orientation through 6th grade.
A Bremer women who declared bankruptcy concealed $147,000 inheritance from her creditors was sentenced to 2 months in federal prison. A trustee discovered she had received the inheritance and she was required to pay her creditors.
Wilton man who solicited underage girls for sex online and sent them child porn was sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison. Two adult women posed as teens and were sent graphic photos by the man and admitted to soliciting them because he thought they were minors.
Trial for Andrew Shaw, accused of hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018, has been bumped to Jan. 23. Shaw had demanded his speedy right to trial.
Light displays in downtown Cedar Rapids will be turned back on now that an arrest has been made in relation to the thefts of power cords.
Judge Fae Hoover will take early retirement next month after serving 20 years on the bench and 34 years overall in the legal profession. She says 20 years is “long enough” on the bench and she is ready to step aside for the next generation.
Two Missouri residents are charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Shawn William Michael Kiger, 31, of Cedar Rapids, whose body was found in rural southeast Missouri this week. Kiger’s hands were bound behind his back and a sock was stuffed in his mouth.
A judge set a competency hearing for a 4-year-old child who a Coralville man is accused of sexually abusing. Jeffrey Dodds’ trial is set for March 19.
A Marion man will go to trial next month, after several delays, for kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman in 2021. His other charges of assault in two separate cases have been resolved through plea agreements.
The woman found an aluminum can with a green fuse coming from one end in the apartment. The Cedar Rapids Metro Hazardous Devices Unit was called to the scene and determined the can was an explosive device.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he stole extension cords and related items from holiday displays around Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
The father described the 4-year-old child’s behavior as “high.”
The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year.
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