A Cedar Rapids man was booked into the Johnson County Jail Monday night, about two years after he was charged with attempted murder. He had been in custody in the Cook County Jail in Illinois on unrelated charges.
With crews in the midst of replacing nearly every window encasing its eight-year-old Stead Family Children’s Hospital, the University of Iowa on Tuesday announced it has won a $49.4 million arbitration award in its complaint over the defective windows.
Several friends testified Monday they witnessed a Traer woman, on trial for killing her husband, be verbally abusive to her husband. Some also said they knew she was having an affair with a Shellsburg man, who is accused of conspiring with her to kill her husband.
A man was arrested Monday on charges that he shot a 12-year-old boy in the head with bird shot after he saw movement in a row of bushes and thought the child was a groundhog.
Cedar Rapids first responders saw a significant drop in fireworks-related citations and calls for service this year in June and the first week of July than in 2024, but an increase in fires after state legislation was passed earlier this year preventing cities from banning fireworks on July 3 and 4.
An Aurora, Iowa, man was arrested Friday in Cedar Rapids on one charge of arson after police say he lit a sheet on fire in the St. Luke’s Hospital Emergency Department.
Small towns experiencing population decline often see staples like grocery stores, day cares and schools close. One less-known, missing part of many of these communities is legal representation.
Investigators are continuing to review what led to the shooting of a man by an officer around 1:40 a.m. in Tama. Dispatchers had received multiple requests for a welfare check prior to the shooting.
A forensic examiner testified Thursday about texts and Snapchats messages that indicate an affair between a Traer woman and her lover — and possibly implicate both of them in the fatal shooting of her husband in 2021.
In both defense and attack mode as a lawsuit against it looms, MercyOne has asked a higher court to weigh in on the recent dismissal of its appeal of Mercy Iowa City’s bankruptcy liquidation plan while also denying the defunct hospital documents it wants for any lawsuit it files against MercyOne.
Litigants trade allegations of forum shopping in state and federal court
The trial for a Traer woman, accused of fatally shooting her husband in the face in 2021, started Wednesday in Linn County. A prosecutor, in his opening, said Karina Cooper carried out a “deliberate and calculated” plan with her lover to kill her husband.
The Dubuque County deputy, who has not been identified, was shot during a high risk traffic stop on Highway 151 near Cascade early Tuesday in which a driver fired shots. The driver was killed in the incident.
Sean “Diddy Combs was convicted of a prostitution-related offense but acquitted Wednesday of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have put one of hip-hop’s most celebrated figures behind bars for life.
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