An Amana man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sexually abused a teenage girl who was too intoxicated to consent, and sent videos of the abuse to other people over Snapchat.
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An Amana man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sexually abused a teenage girl who was too intoxicated to consent, and sent videos of the abuse to other people over Snapchat.
A Marengo man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he threatened on Facebook to shoot people at Marengo’s Big G Food Store, where he worked.
A Cedar Rapids man, who was convicted as a juvenile in 2010 fatal robbery, was arrested this week by U.S. marshals on 12 warrants for gun and drug charges.
An ex-trooper, who faced a second trial, pleaded this week to using unreasonable force on a motorcyclist in 2017. He admitted to striking the compliant Davenport man on Sept. 25, 2017 and knocking him backwards onto his cycle.
A domestic violence consultant testified Tuesday that Jacqueline Holmes of Cedar Rapids, on trial for fatally stabbing her boyfriend, was a battered woman.
The decision Monday rejected the law approved by Iowa lawmakers in April 2021 that makes it a crime to trespass on a property to place a camera to record or transmit images.
The conservative attorney made the arguments in a new legal brief filed this week
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge sentenced a Capitol rioter to seven years in prison Tuesday, calling the Iowa man a “one-man wrecking ball" who helped in a sustained assault on a police officer.
The girlfriend of a Cedar Rapids man fatally stabbed in 2020, during a police interview, changed her story numerous times of what happened and how her boyfriend was injured.
Two Iowa nursing home patients froze to death outside this past winter. A nurse at one home faces no criminal charges, but a worker at another faces a second-degree murder charge.
An Iowa man was convicted Friday of charges that he led a crowd of rioters in chasing a U.S. Capitol police officer up a staircase and accosting other officers guarding the Senate, one of the most harrowing scenes of the mob’s attack that day.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on charges that he held a female victim against her will and sexually assaulted her.
A federal judge sentenced an Arizona woman on Thursday to six years in prison for using a cutting torch to damage the Dakota Access pipeline in Iowa and setting fire to pipeline equipment in three counties in 2016 and 2017
A prosecutor said Thursday a Cedar Rapids woman wouldn’t give vital information to a 911 dispatcher after she fatally stabbed a man in Cedar Rapids in 2020. The defense said she was a victim or abuse and was defending herself.
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