Three assistant Linn County prosecutors suggested the change in the law.
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Three assistant Linn County prosecutors suggested the change in the law.
Two men and one juvenile charged in weekend Iowa City bar fight, where three people were stabbed. Videos from witnesses aided police in making identifications of the suspects.
The Iowa FOI Council is suing the Centerville Community School District for not complying with the Openings Meeting Acts when its board approved a resignation from a counselor, head baseball coach and child abuse investigator for the district who had been accused of inappropriate behavior with a student.
CEDAR RAPIDS — A 17-year-old boy was killed Wednesday night in a shooting in northeast Cedar Rapids, according to Cedar …
The case before the court involved California’s Proposition 12, which voters passed in 2018. It said that pork sold in the state needs to come from pigs whose mothers were raised with at least 24 square feet of space, with the ability to lie down and turn around. That rules out confined “gestation crates,” metal enclosures that are common in the pork industry. The Iowa-based National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation sued.
Another trial delay for Cedar Rapids man accused of robbing and fatally beating his 71-year-old mother in 2020. Police said he assaulted her for $50.
One of murder trial for Kazius Childress, accused of fatally shooting two men in 2022 within hours of each other, has been reset to Jan. 16. If convicted of both, he faces two life sentences.
A Cedar Rapids man was convicted by a Washington D.C. jury Tuesday on seven charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. He faces at least one felony which carries up to 20 years in prison.
Iowa City man, charged with attempted murder and robbery, fled to Jordan after cutting off GPS monitor over the weekend. His parents have been charged with aiding in the escape.
Law enforcement agencies across Iowa and across the country have been seeing application numbers decrease for years, and in the last couple of years the change has been even more noticeable.
Several school districts and one university also have issued alerts that Carl Markley, 44, performed school physicals for their students, although none of the charges against him allege that crimes occurred during those exams.
Allegedly had strangled woman to unconsciousness near UI Art Building West for $20,000 earrings
Three men were stabbed early Saturday morning when a large fight broke out near the intersection of Gilbert and Burlington streets in downtown Iowa City. Police report that their initial investigation indicates the people involved in the fight knew each other.
A North Liberty man could face life in prison if a judge stacks all or some of the 40 counts of second-degree sexual abuse. He waived a jury trial and opted to have a stipulated trial based on the minutes of testimony. Each charge carries 25 years in prison.
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