A former legal assistant filed a lawsuit last week against Linn County, Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks and an assistant prosecutor for sexual harassment and retaliation.
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A former legal assistant filed a lawsuit last week against Linn County, Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks and an assistant prosecutor for sexual harassment and retaliation.
Law enforcement in Fayette County performed five search warrants over the weekend and arrested nine people on drug charges, according to a news release from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.
A local developer is accused of stealing home improvement materials from Menards in Marion. The incident was captured on the store’s surveillance video.
A former therapist at the Iowa State Training School had sexually explicit phone calls with a teen assigned to her and they talked about having sex while he was on a home visit from the school, records show.
Court records say two teens were drag racing when they crashed with another car in May.
The second Fairfield teen, Jeremy Goodale, convicted for killing a high school Spanish teacher in 2021, was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Willard Miller was sentenced to a 35-year mandatory minimum in August in Nohema Graber’s slaying. The judge said he thought Goodale was genuinely remorseful, unlike Miller.
The first day of a two-day sentencing for Jeremy Goodale, 18, who killed a Fairfield High Spanish teacher in 2021, revealed more details of her brutal beating with a baseball bat. Goodale told police hit struck her five times with the bat, after Willard Miller, 18, hit her three times.
A Door Dash delivery driver who was killed in October in a targeted shooting in Cedar Rapids had been shot six times by the time he died, according to a criminal complaint against Cameron Leonard, one of the alleged shooters.
Chief state medical examiner testified 71-year-old woman’s head and facial injuries were consistent with blunt force trauma - being beaten by her son in 2020. She died from a pulmonary embolism, which ultimately resulted from the assault.
Cedar Rapids Police are investigating a shots fired incident that happened early Monday morning in southwest Cedar Rapids.
A man from East Dubuque. Ill., who was shot and injured by a Delaware County deputy last week after authorities say he killed a Fareway employee in Monticello, had his first appearance in court Saturday over a video call from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics where he is being treated, according to Monticello police.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on three charges of third-degree sexual abuse for an assault last summer.
A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested Saturday on a warrant after police say she started a fire in a Cedar Rapids apartment building in August.
People stealing trees from public and private land in Iowa is an infrequent but growing occurrence, according to state conservation officers. In one recent case, set to go to trial this week, a Pocahontas County man is charged with felony theft for taking trees from a wildlife management area.
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