A former Atkins city clerk has been criminally charged after an audit earlier this year found she had been misusing city funds.
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A former Atkins city clerk has been criminally charged after an audit earlier this year found she had been misusing city funds.
A former employee of University of Iowa Community HomeCare has paired up with a former patient to sue the entity on behalf of themselves and 67,000-plus others over a data breach in March they argue could have been prevented, was reported too late, and unjustly enriched the university while causing years of stress, risk, and potential further victimization in the form of fraud and identity theft.
Lawyers representing the students say the new state law that prohibits certain LGBTQ topics in K-12 schools violates students’ First Amendment right to free speech
The 6th Judicial District Court is taking applications for an upcoming vacancy on the bench. Judge Fae Hoover is retiring at the end of December. Applications are due Dec. 15.
A Cedar Rapids man accused of trying to kill his wife by stabbing her multiple times in 2021 wants to keep his confession out of trial. His lawyers argue he had an “existing” mental condition and was in a psychotic state. Prosecution argues he understood all the questions and led the discussion during the interrogation.
A judge sentenced a Cedar Rapids man to 25 years for sexually abusing a child for over a year. The girl, now 8, told a forensic interviewer about the incidents and then, the abuser confessed to police that he sexually abused her for over a year.
The biggest “enemy” of a cold case is time. It it affects memories, evidence and paper reports. But time also can bring breakthroughs by way of new technology that wasn’t available when someone was killed and murders went unsolved. In a continuing series, The Gazette will revisit some of those unsolved cases in Cedar Rapids and Linn County. Investigators will share their insights and new information gathered over the years, and victims’ families will share memories of their loved ones.
A newly filed lawsuit claims an insurance company engineered a record-setting medical malpractice judgment in Iowa to spur state legislators into passing tort-reform legislation.
The wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor was convicted Tuesday of a scheme to stuff the ballot box in her husband’s unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020.
A judge Tuesday sentenced Alfred Younes, 49, to five years in prison for helping his son, Ali Younes, 20, avoid prosecution for robbery and trying to kill a woman last year on the UI campus and escape to Jordan. His wife also was sentenced to five years for helping their son.
About 2:30 p.m. Monday, Cedar Rapids police tried to stop a black Ford Edge being driven near downtown.
A former Solon and Clear Creek Amana softball coach pleads guilty to sex abuse of 14- or 15-year-old student in 2006-07. James Anthony White, 59, faces a suspended sentence and will serve probation. Sentencing judge will determine length of probation.
The 2-1 decision by a panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals based in St. Louis found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which requires political maps to include districts where minority populations’ preferred candidates can win elections.
Radical union organizer arrested in Marion in 1919, sent to prison
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