A traffic camera at the intersection where the August crash occurred showed the driver was holding a cellphone in front of his face in the seconds before the crash, according to a criminal complaint.
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A traffic camera at the intersection where the August crash occurred showed the driver was holding a cellphone in front of his face in the seconds before the crash, according to a criminal complaint.
A Storm Lake man accused of kidnapping his wife by gunpoint and planning to take her to Chicago last December was convicted Sept. 26 for assaulting another inmate in the Johnson County Jail in July. His trial for kidnapping is set for Oct. 24.
The St. Ludmila Catholic Church Social Justice Committee in partnership with the St. Ludmila Religious Education Program will host a special presentation on Group Violence Intervention, Stand Up for Peace, from 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 4 in the Social Hall, 211 21st Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on charges that he stalked a woman and broke into her house with a gun.
The man had been living in the house, but he was set to be evicted from the residence the day of the fire.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Saturday on charges that he broke several bones of an infant boy by squeezing him and forcefully pulling on his legs.
An Iowa man who failed to show up for the guilty verdict at his murder trial has been found and taken into custody, state officials announced Saturday.
Also, police officer justified in shooting, AG Office says
One of the teens accused of fatally shooting 16-year-old Michael Alexander McCune in Cedar Rapids in February is asking a judge to move his first-degree murder and a theft case to juvenile court, but his previous juvenile court officer said it wasn’t in the “best interest” of the teen or the community.
A Cedar Rapids woman, charged with trying to kill a man by slashing his throat on Sunday, had threatened to kill him earlier this year when she broke into his home, records show.
A judge sentenced an Iowa City woman to five years in prison for helping her son escape to Jordan to avoid being prosecuted for robbing and attempting to kill a woman on the University of Iowa campus in 2022. She was convicted by a Johnson County jury last month.
A former Cyclones basketball player that didn’t play last season because of an Achilles injury pleaded Tuesday to underage gambling. He is the 10th student-athlete to plead to the lesser charge in the state probe of illegal gambling.
A 19-year-old Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 25 years for a vehicular homicide and a shooting incident in 2022. He faced up to 50 years but received a plea deal because he was 18 at the time.
A Marion man has been charged with attempted murder after a shooting last month in Cedar Rapids.
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