Swimmers at Noelridge Aquatic Center in northeast Cedar Rapids were taken into safe housing on-site Wednesday after reports of shots being fired nearby.
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Swimmers at Noelridge Aquatic Center in northeast Cedar Rapids were taken into safe housing on-site Wednesday after reports of shots being fired nearby.
A Cresco man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sexually abused multiple Boy Scouts while serving as a troop leader in Cresco.
A federal jury convicts a Cedar Rapids man for seven armed robberies in a 12-day crime spree in 2020. He robbed Subways, grocery stores and a pizza place.
A woman testified her ex-boyfriend and father of her child started threatening and intimidating her before he fired multiple shots at her vehicle. One of the bullets struck the backseat window, where their child was sitting.
Judge Anuradha Vaitheswaran, who grew up in Cedar Rapids, retired from the panel.
A North Liberty man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he sexually abused a 10-year-old child when he was 16.
A Lone Tree man was arrested this week on charges that he sexually abused a woman he met at a bar in Iowa City.
A former ISU football player who assaulted the former UI basketball player in 2021 was sentenced to one year of probation and granted a deferred judgment.
An Iowa City man was arrested Monday on charges that, during an argument with his girlfriend of eight years, he lit fake flowers on fire and threw them at her, according to a criminal complaint.
Ethan Orton was sentenced to life in prison and must serve a mandatory minimum of 50 years before being eligible for parole.
Advocate says disparity is a product of racial bias
Tacoa Talley, convicted of suffocating his girlfriend’s stepmom last July, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. Grieving family says they have lost hope and joy after losing Jodie Bevans.
A judge ruled this week to move a 16-year-old out of juvenile detention because there’s not enough space and staff to keep him and three other teens, charged in fatal shooting of 16-year-old Michael McCune, separate pending their trials.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested this week on charges that he sexually abused a 3- or 4-year-old child multiple times between January and April of this year.
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