A 15-year-old was killed last year outside Des Moines’ East High School
116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
A 15-year-old was killed last year outside Des Moines’ East High School
An AMBER Alert was issued Wednesday evening and Des Moines Police are asking for the public’s assistance in finding an abducted girl.
There has recently been an uptick in car burglaries, in which items are stolen out of parked cars, in North Liberty and the surrounding areas, according to a news release from the North Liberty Police Department.
Jack McCaffery, 17, of North Liberty, will pay $1,000 fine and his driver’s license will be suspended for 180 days as a result of fatal crash in May. He was cited for failing to yield to a jogger in a marked crosswalk in Iowa City. The jogger, Corey Hite, 45, an Iowa National Guard soldier, died later from his injuries.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexual abuse of a 13-year-old and another girl under 12. One of the victims also was sexually abused by his brother in 2020.
A Cedar Rapids man accused of fatally assaulting his mother in 2020 has waived a jury trial and will have a bench trial Nov. 7. The prosecution is also amending the murder charge against George Dreason from first-degree to second-degree murder.
A Storm Lake man, who kidnapped his wife by gunpoint and led police on a foot pursuit through an Iowa City parking ramp last year, pleaded to guilty Wednesday and faces 40 years in prison. His trial was set to start next Tuesday.
Starbucks and the union organizing its workers sued each other Wednesday in a standoff sparked by a social media post over the Israel-Hamas war.
Iowa City Police have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in an alley in early October.
A former business manager of a local union was indicted for embezzling funds in 2020-21 to pay his vehicle loan and other expenses. His pretrial release was revoked this week. He will remain in jail until a bed at a halfway house is available.
A Cedar Rapids man was convicted of sexually assaulting a child over the course of three months in 2020. His brother was convicted in August of sexually abusing same victim and a teen.
Two 17-year-olds have each been charged in Johnson County Court with homicide by vehicle and involuntary manslaughter after a crash in May that killed Jennifer Russell, 22, according to a Wednesday news release from the Johnson County Attorney’s Office.
A Cedar Rapids man who was just discharged from his federal prison term for trafficking drugs is now charged with hiring two others to kill Chris Bagley in 2018. If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
An Iowa City woman was arrested over the weekend on charges that she lit a truck on fire that belonged to the man she’s divorcing..
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