A man who was shot by Cedar Rapids police officers Saturday has been identified by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation as Brandon Lee Nelson, 23, of Cedar Rapids.
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A man who was shot by Cedar Rapids police officers Saturday has been identified by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation as Brandon Lee Nelson, 23, of Cedar Rapids.
University of Iowa Physicians – a medical and surgical group based in its Carver College of Medicine – has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the North Liberty wife of a patient who died in August 2015 of complications from a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor.
The Safer Communities Act — a bipartisan gun safety bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 25 — closed what was known as the “boyfriend loophole” on a national level, but gaps still in exist in Iowa that keep the loophole open in most cases, experts say.
Two officers exchanged gunfire with a driver they pulled over early Saturday, injuring the driver, authorities said.
A federal class-action suit brought by youth basketball players who were potential sex abuse victims of former Barnstormers coach Greg Stephen reached a settlement Friday to set up over $1 million fund to benefit the victims. The organization also agreed to set up youth protection protocols and policies to keep players safe.
A judge gave an Iowa City teen a deferred judgment and three years probation in an armed robbery last year. The conviction could be expunged if the 18-year-old if he doesn’t have serious violations in the future.
A Cedar Rapids man charged with killing one woman at Taboo Nightclub in April will now face more charges because the other victim shot has died.
He admitted he and others distributed 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine
A Pottawattamie County man was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for illegally selling performance-enhancing drugs for racing dogs. He also had to forfeit over $500,000 in drug proceeds.
Judge resets trial for Jeremy Goodale to Dec. 5 in Scott County. Goodale is one of the Fairfield teens accused of killing his Spanish teacher with a baseball bat last year.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department has identified the man killed in a stabbing incident Wednesday as Christopher Anson, 52.
DES MOINES — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller is suing tobacco companies to recover $133 million in withheld payments stemming from the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, he announced in a news conference Thursday.
A former Tama County jailer has been charged with having sex with an inmate. A complaint states the deputy and offender had sex in a utility closet and the recreation yard.
Maquoketa Caves State Park, where police say a man killed three people and himself, is set to reopen Thursday morning.
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