Four finalists include one internal and three external applicants to replace former chief Mike Kitsmiller.
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Four finalists include one internal and three external applicants to replace former chief Mike Kitsmiller.
A Columbus Junction man was arrested this week on a charge that he dragged a man behind a van on a gravel road in Columbus Junction.
An Oxford man was sentenced to 13 years for soliciting a girl he believed was 15-years-old for sex and receiving child pornography. An undercover officer was posing as a minor online and nabbed the man when he showed up to meet the girl for sex.
Federal jury convicts Cedar Rapids man for selling heroin/fentanyl mix to Marion couple who died from overdoses in 2023. He faces 40 years and possibly up to life in federal prison.
The charges are the first after Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate in March claimed 277 Iowans without U.S. citizenship illegally voted or registered to vote in recent elections.
A Cedar Rapids woman was charged with an OWI this week after a vehicle crashed into the Iowa River on the University of Iowa campus.
“Unfortunately, what we see happen too commonly across the state of Iowa happened in Conesville,” Iowa Auditor Rob Sand said at a Tuesday press conference. “The City Clerk who had the keys to the kingdom made off with taxpayer money.”
An Iowa City man, who committed a series of robberies in Cedar Rapids and Robins, now faces up to 60 years in federal prison. He laundered the stolen money by depositing them in different accounts in Maryland.
A Marion man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he offered to pay someone he believed was a 15-year-old minor to perform a sex act with him, and sent them an explicit photo.
The groups claim the new state law would increase businesses’ health care costs by millions of dollars, and that it violates existing federal law and businesses’ free speech
The Iowa County Sheriff’s Office has released the names of two people who were shot Friday on Interstate 80 near the westbound on-ramp of exit 225, in rural Williamsburg.
A judge denied a motion to dismiss for a Marion man, who was charged and convicted in fatal crash of a Coggon mother in 2013, and now faces a new charge because the mother’s daughter, also injured in the crash, just died from those injuries last year.
A North Liberty man was arrested Monday on charges that he sexually abused a 15-year-old.
The incident, at the milepost 225 westbound on ramp, was reported to the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office around 9 p.m. Friday night.
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