A Cedar Rapids leader of a large-scale meth trafficking ring was sentenced Friday to 30 years in federal prison. He operated the ring from 2018 through March 2020.
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A Cedar Rapids leader of a large-scale meth trafficking ring was sentenced Friday to 30 years in federal prison. He operated the ring from 2018 through March 2020.
The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday formally recognized transitional alimony as a new type of support that may be considered in divorce cases, joining several other states that have accepted the practice.
James Shannon Sr., 50, faces three counts of third-degree sexual abuse, accused of sexually abusing a teenager in 2005 and 2006.
U.S. marshals arrested a 27-year-old man wanted in Johnson and Mitchell counties on charges of third-degree sexual abuse. He is jailed in Chicago, awaiting extradition to Iowa.
Judge: Victim and her family favored that plea
The Iowa City Police Department has responded to several vehicle burglaries in the past couple weeks. Police advise keeping doors locked and valuables out of sight.
A 19-year-old Cedar Rapids man is accused of harboring a runaway. He allegedly took a 14-year-old from her house in Marion and drove her to Ohio.
A Sioux City man was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison for twice selling unapproved erectile dysfunction pills as dietary supplements called “Supermale.”
A Coralville man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for causing a head-on crash that killed a Cedar Rapids woman in 2020. He pleaded to vehicular homicide and other charges.
According to the National Council on Aging, about one in 10 Americans aged 60 or older have suffered from at least one form of elder abuse. In Iowa, the Department of Human Services saw a 37 percent increase in dependent abuse reports from the first half of 2020 to the second half of 2021, with 5,800 cases.
Two people were injured in shootings that happened less than two hours apart Monday night in Cedar Rapids.
A Cedar Rapids man, who has previous convictions, was acquitted last week by a federal jury for illegally possessing a handgun that was found in a vehicle he was driving. According to testimony, the car belonged to his sister and the gun belonged to his friend.
New Court TV series with Tamron Hall will feature the murder of Ed Thomas, the legendary Aplington/Parkersburg High School football coach, March 27
A North Liberty woman, who was intoxicated and crashed an ATV in a ravine, unintentionally causing the death of her friend, Mary Knight, July 16, 2020, pleaded guilty last week.
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