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.
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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.
A Montezuma man was arrested this week on charges that he supplied potent morphine to his fiancee in 2020, which resulted in her death.
New York’s attorney general sued former President Donald Trump and his company on Wednesday, alleging business fraud involving some of their most prized assets, including properties in Manhattan, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
“I basically intended on being the poster boy, and it really worked out,” Doug Jensen said, according to a transcript of the interview on Jan. 8, 2021.
A Chicago pharmacologist, testifying for the defense, said Tuesday that a Marion woman died from the high level of meth in her system, instead of the 26 stabbing injuries that an autopsy stated was her cause of death.
A forensic psychiatrist testified Monday that a Marion man couldn’t distinguish right from wrong when he killed his ex-girlfriend in 2017 and that he was suffering from meth-induced psychosis when he stabbed her 26 times.
Smith was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. Wednesday after being admitted earlier in the week “for an acute illness related to a chronic medical condition”
A California man pleaded to a drug conspiracy charge after being nabbed at the LA airport for trying to smuggle meth onto a plane. He is one of 11 men charged in Cedar Rapids meth trafficking ring.
A judge will review an independent competency exam of Cedar Rapids man, who was convicted last year for sex assault of incapacitated Iowa City woman and video recording it, to determine if can stand trial in three more sex assault trials.
A deputy medical examiner said 26 stab injuries to 29-year-old Carrie Davis were “sufficient” to kill her.
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