A Polk County jury recently awarded the Republican candidate running to serve as the state’s taxpayer watchdog $1 million in his wrongful termination case against the state's exclusive liquor wholesaler.
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A Polk County jury recently awarded the Republican candidate running to serve as the state’s taxpayer watchdog $1 million in his wrongful termination case against the state's exclusive liquor wholesaler.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating a shooting after a man was found with a gunshot wound in his chest Sunday.
An Iowa City man will make a plea Wednesday in the 2019 fatal stabbing of his wife, JoEllen Browning, a UI Hospitals and Clinics budget director.
From the start, the case stemming from a drive-by shooting death of a 15-year-old boy near a Des Moines high school has been among the most complex prosecutions ever in Iowa's capital city, involving 10 teenagers, six guns and at least 42 fired bullets.
A Cedar Rapids teen who is accused of killing his parents last year will not have a trial this month. Prosecutors asked for a delay because they want to get an expert to counter the defense’s expert opinion which states the teen had diminished capacity.
A Hiawatha man was arrested Thursday on federal charges that he left threatening voicemail messages for an Arizona county election official and an official at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Advocates for Social Justice worked with the family of William Rich, who was killed by police on Aug. 30, to organize protests requesting the release of police body camera footage of the incident. The non-profit released a statement Thursday in response to a decision that the shooting was legally justified.
Scam calls asking for payment of non-existent court fees have been growing more common, and scammers are finding more ways to appear legitimate, including using the names of actual law enforcement officers and telling victims they missed jury duty, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
A Linn County Deputy, who was shot several times while responding to an armed robbery last year, was awarded a Purple Heart Award Tuesday by the Iowa State Police Association.
Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks released a report Wednesday from the Iowa Attorney General’s Office detailing the investigation into the officer-involved shooting of William Isaac Rich in Cedar Rapids on Aug. 30. The report concluded that the shooting was justified, and Maybanks agreed in a released statement.
In a hearing Tuesday on a lawsuit over the Cedar Rapids ordinance requiring five of the nine-member Citizens Review Board identify as people of color, a judge asked whether the policy reflected a bias that white people could not identify trends rooted in bias.
A Cedar Rapids woman who claimed self-defense in fatal stabbing of boyfriend was found guilty of lesser charge last week. She faces 5 years for involuntary manslaughter.
Kenny Rader's trip to Washington was on-again, off-again and back on at the last moment. But his dissatisfaction with the election began building months before the insurrection.
Police said Joshua T. Barnhart, 31, followed a man from Casey’s on 32nd Street NE in Cedar Rapids to Midland Concrete in Hiawatha, where the man works.
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