The fatal shooting of a Linn County man by law enforcement officers during a traffic stop near Cascade in Dubuque County last month was justified, according to a report issued Friday by the Iowa Attorney General’s Office.
“The why” as to fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley on Dec. 14, 2018 is one man, Andrew Shaw, a Linn County prosecutor said Thursday. Bagley had become a “liability” and Shaw is accused of paying two men to carry out his fatal stabbing.
A Fairfax man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he drove a stolen truck to and from a vehicle recycling center, and sold more than 20 vehicles to a recycling center without being properly licensed.
At least two people were shot in the home, Glenwood Police Chief Eric Johansen said.
Man still has other pending cases for domestic assault and violating sex offender registration requirements.
Hawkeye Waste reached a temporary agreement with the Johnson County Attorney’s Office when it purchased workers’ compensation insurance after the county asked a judge to shut down the business because operating without insurance is violating Iowa law.
A Coralville woman convicted for distributing “thousands“ of fentanyl pills in 2024 was sentenced this week to 7 years in federal prison. She transported the pills from Washington and was nabbed when she returned to Iowa.
The Linn County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday to approve an $850,000 settlement with the mother of a woman who died in the Linn County Jail in 2022.
The shooting happened following a pursuit which ended in the 1200 block of 15th St. SE around 5:50 p.m. Tuesday. The Iowa Division of Investigation will continue to investigate the incident.
The payment is one of the final pieces of a settlement agreement over a 2023 lawsuit that claimed the State of Iowa for decades had ‘disregarded the lack of mental and behavioral health services’ for children
Cedar Rapids man convicted in Malik Sheets fatal shooting in 2020 pleaded Tuesday to gun charge in federal court. He faces up to 15 years in prison.
A serial sexual abuse convict from Cedar Rapids, who in 2021 was sentenced to 12 years in prison after convictions in two sexual abuse cases, has now been charged with sexually assaulting a child back in 2014.
Iowa City Police are investigating a shooting just before 3 a.m. Sunday in which four people were injured in the 600 block of E. Court St.
Shots fire incidents skyrocketed in 2020 around the country, but those numbers have been dropping in Cedar Rapids in Iowa City and are now lower than pre-pandemic numbers in both cities. City and county officials say it could be a result of the violence intervention programs that have been active in both cities for the last few years, although it’s difficult to know exactly what causes the changes in statistics.
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