Eddie Tipton, serving a 25-year prison sentence for rigging computers to win Iowa lottery jackpots, has had his parole revoked after he got into trouble in prison just before his scheduled release.
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Eddie Tipton, serving a 25-year prison sentence for rigging computers to win Iowa lottery jackpots, has had his parole revoked after he got into trouble in prison just before his scheduled release.
Two teenagers accused of killing a Fairfield high school Spanish teacher had their appeals declined by the Iowa Supreme Court on Thursday. They had appealed a decision that would allow the public and the news media to attend a hearing about sending their case to Juvenile Court.
Wells Fargo gives a $650,000 grant to Iowa Legal Aid’s project that provides legal representation and rental assistance to those in eviction situations.
The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, securing her place as the first Black female justice. Iowa’s U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst voted against her confirmation.
Two Cedar Rapids men are facing charges for allegedly stealing $150,000 in gold and silver from the adoptive father of one of the men.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly breaking into another man’s residence and ambushing him to steal his wallet.
A Florida man is suing Solon Retirement Village for failing to provide management and oversight of staff — one nurse who is criminally charged with stealing from his aunt — as well as other staff members who didn’t provide proper medical care and treatment for his loved one.
Indiana State Police identified Harry Edward Greenwell, who died in Iowa in 2013, as the suspect who raped and killed three women in Indiana and Kentucky in the late 1980s as they were working night shifts as motel clerks.
A Cedar Rapids man who called 911 Saturday to report a woman's “heroin overdose” has been charged with murder after police found the woman with what appeared to be blunt force head trauma, according to a criminal complaint.
The trial for Joshua Conklin, who is charged with fatally shooting Randal Campbell in 2019 and then staging it to look like a suicide, had been set to start in May.
Julia Cox, 56, and Roy Garner, 59, pleaded guilty to their roles in the September 2020 killing of Michael Williams, 44, of Grinnell.
Prosecutor believes underlying issues, including the pandemic, contributed to spike in reports.
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Des Moines police arrested four more teenagers on charges of murder Tuesday in the March 7 shooting death of a 15-year-old outside a Des Moines high school.
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