Trial is reset for a 19-year-old Cedar Rapids accused of fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl a year ago. His trial will start Dec. 6 in Linn County District Court.
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Trial is reset for a 19-year-old Cedar Rapids accused of fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl a year ago. His trial will start Dec. 6 in Linn County District Court.
Between April 2020 and October 2021, Jennifer Lynn Smith, 44, reportedly assumed the identities of several people from around the United States, and established multiple financial accounts, causing losses to banks, credit unions and other businesses.
A former Linn County sheriff’s reserve deputy and TSA officer has been indicted on federal child pornography charges. A federal judge ruled Wednesday the Marion man must remain in jail pending trial, saying he posed a danger to the community and was a flight risk.
The trucking company is facing a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it has schemed to “effectively steal money from their drivers.”
An Iowa City man is facing a charge of terrorism and two charges of possession of explosives after bringing “incendiary materials” to the GuideLink Center and University of Iowa’s College of Public Health.
The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago and then fled to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated shooting up an event there, authorities said Wednesday.
A Coralville police officer died this weekend from an acute medical emergency after responding to a shooting in which a 3-year-old child died, according to a Facebook post from the Coralville Police Department.
Law enforcement responded to an incident at GuideLink Center in Iowa City where an individual began to physically assault staff members after walking into the building. The GuideLink Center will remain closed until 6 a.m. on Wednesday.
A jury last week acquitted a former Cedar Rapids landlord who assaulted his tenant with a hammer. The landlord said the tenant, who had been given an eviction notice the day before attacked him and the landlord defended himself.
Stolen bicycles don’t often end up back in the hands of their owners, which is why Brian Morelli, from Iowa City, was surprised when he got a call on June 13 from someone letting him known they’d found his vintage Miyata Alumicross.
An hourslong manhunt during which residents hunkered down in businesses or received police escorts to their homes ended with a traffic stop and brief chase Monday evening, when authorities detained a man they described as a person of interest. They identified no motive for the attack in Highland Park, an affluent community of about 30,000 on Chicago’s north shore.
The 3-year-old child from Coralville who suffered a gunshot-related injury Sunday afternoon has died, authorities announced. The Coralville Police Department and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation are investigating the incident.
A Black man was unarmed when Akron police chased him on foot and killed him in a hail of gunfire, but officers believed he had shot at them earlier from a vehicle and feared he was preparing to fire again, authorities said Sunday at a news conference.
Child was in critical condition Sunday night at UIHC
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