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Justices rule closing of courtroom during COVID violated his rights
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested this week on charges that he sexually abused an 11-year-old girl in 2019 and 2020.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department and Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control are receiving Humane Law Enforcement awards presented by the Humane Society of the United States at a city council meeting Tuesday.
Dennis W. Haggerty Jr. of Burr Ridge pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and money laundering charges for taking more than $2.5 million from hospitals in Chicago and Iowa.
A man was taken in to custody last week in Illinois after police believe he committed two knifepoint robberies in Coralville and Iowa City.
Police on Monday arrested a second man in the death of a 4-year-old Iowa boy who was killed when a car that was racing on a Des Moines street crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed into two vehicles.
According to the complaint, Robinson pointed the gun at the man, put it in his mouth and threatened to shoot him, and Johnson punched the alleged victim as he undressed.
DES MOINES (AP) — A federal judge in Washington has found an Iowa man guilty of 12 charges including assaulting and resisting officers after he and
The mother of Michael Valentine, fatally shot by Dimione Walker, said her son was trying to be a better man for his son but his “light” was dimmed too soon. She forgave his killer.
He’s accused of pouring lighter fluid under his ex-girlfriend’s apartment door and igniting a blaze, trapping his ex, her boyfriend and three children inside. They escaped by going on the balcony.
A small-town Iowa police chief has been indicted on federal charges that he abused his position to purchase more than two dozen machine guns.
A Storm Lake man who was armed and took his wife hostage in an Iowa City parking ramp Monday, now faces additional charges for attempting to steal a woman’s car during his escape from police.
A 56-year-old Iowa woman who joined her son at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has pleaded guilty to a charge of entering a restricted building.
A Marengo man faces up to 15 years in prison for unintentionally causing the death of Erik Halvorson in 2020. He pleaded after his trial was reset 10 times.
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