A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a northern Iowa father and son to prison for their participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
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A federal judge Wednesday sentenced a northern Iowa father and son to prison for their participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
Police said they received a report just after 5 p.m. about gunshots being fired in the 1500 block of Fourth Avenue SE.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested on Friday on a charge of first-degree burglary.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is asking the public for help identifying two people who the department says were present during a mass shooting at a downtown Cedar Rapids nightclub in April.
A Georgia man, who punched a TSA officer after he was stopped at The Eastern Iowa Airport security checkpoint for concealing marijuana and nearly $38,000 cash in his luggage, was sentenced to two months in federal prison.
Two Iowans are suing the state over gender-based restrictions to serve on the State Judicial Nominating Commission.
A Jones County woman propelled across a highway from a mailbox pipe bomb recalls the trauma 20 years later. Luke Helder, a Wisconsin college student charged with planting the bombs in five states in 2002, remains incompetent to stand trial and committed to a federal mental facility.
Second man dies from injuries
Cedar Rapids Police Chief Wayne Jerman was honored Thursday by the Iowa Police Chiefs’ Association as the Law Enforcement Executive of the Year.
Prosecutors amended a first-degree murder charge to voluntary manslaughter for a Cedar Rapids man who shot another man three times during a fight.
Judge denies moving trial out of Linn Co. for 21-year-old charged with killing his parents and sister.
One of the Cedar Rapids men accused in the deadly nightclub shooting won’t go to trial until next year. Timothy Rush, who is charged with murder and 15 other charges, is accused of shooting girlfriend and injuring 6 others.
One of the Fairfield teens charged with killing a Spanish teacher wants a judge to suppress his statements made to police and to move his trial out of Jefferson County.
A 27-year-old Cedar Rapids man pleaded to sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl in two incidents. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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