A parents group is suing the Linn-Mar school district, superintendant and board members for policies that protect transgender students from discrimination. The petition claims the policies violate parents’ right to consent and students’ rights to express a different opinion.
Incident happened on Interstate 380 midday Tuesday. Investigators say a manpointed the gun at a vehicle with two adults and two kids inside and fired the gun twice. One of the bullets struck the front end of the car, police said. No one was injured.
Iowa City police were called to Elray’s Live and Dive in downtown Iowa City just after midnight on Sunday. Alex Bwayonga, 18, verbally threatened staff, pulled out a loaded gun and pointed it at bar staff, police said.
A Cedar Rapids man accused in the Capitol attack Jan. 6 will be tried in a Washington D.C. court Jan. 16.
James “Jim” White, a former softball coach at Solon High School and Clear Creek Amana High School, was arrested Sunday on charges that he sexually abused a student 15 years ago.
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.
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