Maquoketa Caves State Park, where police say a man killed three people and himself, is set to reopen Thursday morning.
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Maquoketa Caves State Park, where police say a man killed three people and himself, is set to reopen Thursday morning.
Police found the man after responding to a report of a fight and potential stabbing.
Two people have been indicted for marijuana robbery and illegally possessing firearms. One of the defendants was initially charged in state court for firing 24 rounds into a building last month.
A Cedar Rapids man charged with attempting to kill a man in 2020 has been found incompetent to stand trial. He will be sent to a Coralville state hospital for treatment to restore competency.
Meatpacker tells the nation’s high court that companies “will not be so eager to willingly aid the federal government in a crisis” if those rulings that favor workers’ families are allowed to stand.
The trial for a 21-year-old Cedar Rapids man, accused of fatally shooting his parents and sister in 2021, will begin in January 2023.
Chains Interrupted, a Cedar Rapids-based non-profit dedicated to fighting human trafficking, will host an awareness event in which participants are invited to pour red sand into the cracks in the sidewalk, symbolizing the people who fall through the cracks of human trafficking.
Investigators have uncovered little to establish a motive, noting they have not turned up any connection between Anthony Sherwin and those they say he killed at Maquoketa Caves State Park.
A former state trooper charged with using unreasonable force against a Davenport motorcyclist in 2017 will be retried Oct. 11 in federal court. His trial last week was declared a mistrial when jurors couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.
The grief felt by families when a loved one dies is immense. When a loved one dies while incarcerated, that grief can be made worse by the way the news of the death is delivered.
Seven people have died while incarcerated at the Linn County Correctional Center since the beginning of 2020.
A 9-year-old Cedar Falls boy was spared in an attack that killed his parents and younger sister early Friday as they camped at the Maquoketa Caves State Park in Eastern Iowa, according to the mayor of Cedar Falls.
Linn County jury convicts Cedar Rapids man on four counts of sexual assault. He assaulted a 15-year-old girl multiple times in 2019.
A federal judge on Friday declared a mistrial for a former state trooper who was charged with using unreasonable force causing injury against a Davenport motorcyclist in 2017. Jurors told the judge they could not reach a unanimous verdict.
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