An Iowa City charged with murdering his wife in 2019 will not go to trial July 12. The trial will be reset for a sixth time since 2020. He also asked the court, in a motion, to keep out any possible motive and investigators’ theories regarding him concealing his high risk loans and financial state of banking accounts from his wife.
The suit claims the Raging River ride was poorly and improperly maintained, staff wasn’t properly trained and blames management for allowing the ride to open July 3, 2021.
A Washington, Iowa, veterans’ organization, Healing at English River Outfitters - HERO, has completed its retreat lodge
A judge has delayed next week’s suppression hearing for a Fairfield teen accused of beating to death his teacher with a baseball bat. Prosecutors asked for the delay, noting defense lawyers would be taking depositions in August that might raise more suppression issues.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating two Tuesday evening shots fired incidents that resulted in non-life threatening injuries to two people, according to news releases from the department.
A Vinton man was arrested in Linn County Tuesday on charges that he sexually abuse a 5-year-old girl.
A former Muscatine County jail administrator who was fired over his anti-Muslim and anti-gay writings is now suing the county.
Prosecutors say Illinois authorities won’t release Cedar Rapids man charged in Taboo deadly shooting in April. He is being held at Stateville Prison in Joliet, Ill., on parole violations.
At a sentencing hearing for Michael Thomas Lang, 42, who a jury over a month ago convicted of first-degree murder, was handed a term of life in prison without parole for killing Smith during an April 2021 standoff at Lang’s Grundy Center home.
A judge Monday suspended proceedings against a Cedar Rapids man, charged with beating to death a woman with a board, until he undergoes a mental evaluation.
The Iowa Supreme Court’s next justice will be one of three finalists announced Monday by the state’s judicial nominating commission.
The school tried to work out a solution so Kennedy could pray privately before or after the game. When he continued to kneel and pray on the field, the school put him on paid leave.
The shooting was a “targeted incident,” police said, and no arrest had been announced.
No arrests were announced and Cedar Rapids police said they were scouring the area for surveillance video cameras that may have captured the incident.
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