A Georgia man was arrested Tuesday after he dropped off a woman authorities say he had assaulted at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics emergency department and then led UI police on a car chase
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A Georgia man was arrested Tuesday after he dropped off a woman authorities say he had assaulted at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics emergency department and then led UI police on a car chase
A woman has been charged with child endangerment - multiple acts after her child was found unconscious in water at a Motel 6 in Cedar Rapids.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested in Poweshiek County Tuesday after two state troopers report they found him parked on the side of Interstate 80 with a dead body in his car.
An Illinois man was sentenced to 25 years for a fatal crash that killed a 23-year-old Cedar Rapids man. His driver’s license was also revoked for six years. Tyler S. Lee also is charged in Illinois with murder for a 2017 fatal shooting in Winnebago County.
Story County prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss a misdemeanor charge for an Iowa State football player because they missed indictment deadline.
The officers’ counterclaim alleges Tayvin Galanakis defamed them and invaded their privacy when he posted to social media a series of police body-camera videos documenting his arrest and appended to those videos his own commentary on the incident.
The lawsuit alleges that Iowa has for decades failed to meet its legal obligations to Medicaid-eligible children who should have access to individualized and coordinated care plans, in-home therapy and emergency services.
The man, who held a knife to a woman’s neck, choked her and tried to smother her with a pillow as he sexually assaulted her, pleaded to third-degree sex abuse and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The Muscatine County family that last year sued Iowa City-based ENT Medical Services and one of its otolaryngologists after a 2-year-old died following a routine procedure to put tubes in his ears have added a third defendant to its lawsuit: the State of Iowa – for its oversight of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
A Des Moines man has been charged in Johnson County with third-degree sexual abuse.
A national parent’s advocacy group can go forward with it’s claim that the Linn Mar Community School District’s transgender policy to “respect” student’s gender identity violates freedom of speech. The policy is too vague, the court ruled.
An Illinois man will plead guilty next week to one of his charges from a 2021 fatal crash on I-380. He was intoxicated and crashed his pickup truck into an SUV, killing 23-year-old David Nguyen of Cedar Rapids, according to court documents.
The Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Police Departments both posted on social media this week warning the public about common phone scams that have been popping up recently.
City attorney earlier said officials ‘shocked and dismayed’ by officer’s conduct.
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