Lawyers for a Manchester man who was convicted of killing Michelle Martinko in 1979 argued Friday during his appeal that his conviction should be overturned because police didn’t have a warrant when it retrieved his DNA from a straw in the trash.
A former Iowa City elementary school counselor, who had his sex abuse conviction overturned in 2016, was awarded $12 million in a lawsuit for negligence.
Katelyne A. Marquez of Cedar Rapids died after she was brought to a Hiawatha hospital on Sept. 7. Her death is being investigated by the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
A Cedar Rapids woman chosen as a juror in August was charged with perjury for not disclosing she knew the man on trial and made false statements under oath.
A Wellman man is suing Mercy Hospital in Iowa City for giving him 10 times the dose of an opioid drug for pain that a doctor prescribed after he broke his ribs in a fall.
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.
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