Gov. Kim Reynolds has asked the court to allow a court-blocked 2018 law to go into effect; abortion rights groups argue the law should remain blocked.
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Gov. Kim Reynolds has asked the court to allow a court-blocked 2018 law to go into effect; abortion rights groups argue the law should remain blocked.
Security systems using doorbell and home surveillance cameras have become more common and are frequently used in police investigations. In Cedar Rapids, community members can register their doorbell cameras to let police know where they might find video of a crime scene.
“As a part of her top-down, bottom-up audit of victim assistance, Attorney General Bird is carefully evaluating whether this is an appropriate use of public funds,” Bird Press Secretary Alyssa Brouillet said in a statement. “Until that review is complete, payment of these pending claims will be delayed.”
According to police, the woman working at the Casey's was approached by two customers, who assaulted her, and all three exited the store.
A judge, in a bench trial, found a Cedar Rapids man guilty of sexually abusing a 4- to 5-year-old child. He acquitted the man of sexually abusing a 6- to 7-year-old boy.
A former Linn County reserve deputy sheriff was sentenced to 12 years for child pornography. A federal prosecutor said he was “committed to obtaining as much child pornography as he could.”
The Marion City Council unanimously voted Thursday to continue discussions surrounding a proposed ordinance that would allow the city to put up traffic cameras at certain intersections.
In March 2022, a Johnson County jury awarded more than $97.4 million to the family of a boy who sustained serious brain damage during his birth at an Iowa City hospital. The award, believed to be the largest medical malpractice judgment in Iowa history, was later reduced to $75.6 million.
Damontie Haggstrom-Wells, 20, already in prison on a burglary conviction, now faces a murder charge in the May 2020 fatal shooting of Daniel Spangler.
A former bookkeeper for a Traer trucking company is accused of embezzling over $400,000 from 2015 to 2020. She issued unauthorized checks for her personal use over that period.
A former Boone Co. Sheriff’s K-9 officer who left his canine partner in his patrol truck for 22 hours in 91 degree heat in September 2022 was charged for causing dog’s death.
Jacovan Bush, formerly of Fairfax, was convicted of lesser charges in the 2008 fatal shooting of a 19-year-old in Cedar Rapids during a fight between rival groups. He was convicted and sentenced last week for a fatal home invasion in Arkansas.
He’s accused of scamming a deacon from St. Matthew Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids out of more than $25,000 with a story about needing to settle family affairs in Vietnam.
A former Tama County jailer was sentenced to two years probation for having sex with an inmate over a period of months in 2020 and in April of 2021. The former inmate, a Cedar Rapids man, is suing the county, sheriff and former jailer over the incidents.
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