A Cedar Rapids man has been charged with murder in relation to the shooting death of another man Thursday night.
Emily Andersen Crime & Courts Oct. 13, 2023 2:23 pm794d ago
A Cedar Rapids man has been charged with murder in relation to the shooting death of another man Thursday night.
Trish Mehaffey Crime & Courts Oct. 13, 2023 5:00 am795d ago
A former Waterloo nurse pleaded to stealing meds from about 50 women in labor for her own drug use. As part of the plea, she forfeited her nursing license.
Crime & Courts Oct. 12, 2023 8:12 pm795d ago
An adult male was pronounced dead just after 5 p.m. Thursday in the 2000 block of Wiley Boulevard SW.
Crime & Courts Oct. 12, 2023 3:14 pm795d ago
A Walker woman was arrested this week on charges that she stole about $1,250 from the Iowa lottery while working at a Cedar Rapids Kum & Go.
Crime & Courts Oct. 12, 2023 1:01 pm795d ago
The Iowa City Police Department is asking the public for any information regarding a sexual assault that took place Saturday in Iowa City.
Crime & Courts Oct. 11, 2023 5:05 pm796d ago
Iowa Court of Appeals denies new trial and upholds conviction of Cristhian Rivera, who fatally stabbed Mollie Tibbetts while she was out jogging in 2018.
Crime & Courts Oct. 11, 2023 3:12 pm796d ago
One of the two men killed in a shooting last week in Cedar Rapids was delivering a DoorDash order at the time of the shooting, according to his mother.
Crime & Courts Oct. 9, 2023 3:53 pm798d ago
The Cedar Rapids Police Department has identified the two men who were killed in a shooting last week as Myron Snyder and Maurice Brown, both 21, of Cedar Rapids.
Crime & Courts Oct. 8, 2023 10:12 am800d ago
An Iowa City man, on pretrial release, is accused of cutting off his GPS monitor and trying to flee to Chicago on a bus. Police found him before he could leave. He now faces two more felony charges.
Crime & Courts Oct. 6, 2023 6:16 pm801d ago
A Halloween display at the front entrance of the Anamosa State Penitentiary was removed Friday after The Gazette reached out to the Iowa Department of Corrections for comment about it.
Stephen Schmidt, Emily Andersen
Crime & Courts Oct. 6, 2023 5:47 pm801d ago
Three men were found shot Wednesday in northeast Cedar Rapids, with two of the men dying from their wounds and a third seriously injured and transported to a local hospital.
Crime & Courts Oct. 5, 2023 6:11 pm802d ago
Kiana McCune recounts hearing gunshots outside her apartment the day her 15-year-old son, Michael McCune, was fatally shot in a “targeted” attack on Feb. 18. in Cedar Rapids. She told a judge, during one of the teen’s juvenile adjudication hearing, that she “died that day with my son.”
Crime & Courts Oct. 5, 2023 5:55 pm802d ago
An Ohio man wanted in a fatal shooting that happened in an Ohio newspaper’s parking lot was arrested Thursday in Cedar Rapids.
Crime & Courts Oct. 6, 2023 8:45 am802d ago
A Cedar Rapids man who was found Tuesday on the side of Interstate 80 in Poweshiek County with a dead man in his car has now been charged with first-degree murder.
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