A juvenile was injured Sunday evening after a shooting in the 1600 block of Seventh Avenue SE
116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
A juvenile was injured Sunday evening after a shooting in the 1600 block of Seventh Avenue SE
The federal clerk of court in Cedar Rapids will retire after serving more than 16 years in the Northern District of Iowa. He saw the district through many crisis times — the 2008 flood relocation of the courthouse, the Postville immigration raid court proceedings and the derecho recovery.
An Iowa City man pleaded Friday to fatally shooting a 19-year-old during a robbery last year. Sammy Hamed, 23, originally charged with first-degree murder, pleaded to second-degree murder and faces up to 50 years in prison.
Zuena Rambo, 25, is accused of leaving her children home alone when she went to work.
The Iowa Freedom of Information Council has weighed in on motions to excluded the public from the reverse waiver hearings of two Fairfield teens charged with killing their high school Spanish teacher.
A West Liberty School District guidance counselor has been charged with sexually abusing a minor student.
Authorities arrested six teenagers, including a 14-year-old, in a shooting outside a school that killed a 15-year-old boy and seriously wounded two teenage girls, Des Moines police said Tuesday. The suspects are each charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder
The state agreed to pay eight men working for the state's Department of Revenue just over $1 million to settle complaints that they were secretly photographed by a male colleague in a restroom and that supervisors didn't take it seriously.
A’alyiah and Salena Watkins have admired police officers since they were kids, and in February they made history as the first pair of Black sisters at the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
An Iowa City woman was sentenced to probation for taking more than $650,000 from her mother’s bank account on the day she died.
Des Moines Police Department detectives have arrested six local teenagers on charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder.
An Iowa City man was sentenced last week to up to 50 years in prison for aiding and abetting others in a drug and money robbery that led to the death of Kejuan Winters, 21, of Iowa City, on April 20, 2020.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has been sentenced to more than 33 years in federal prison for kidnapping and sexual assaulting two Omaha, Nebraska, teenagers nearly 20 years ago.
Lawyers for Gov. Kim Reynolds, who faces two lawsuits alleging Open Records Law violations by the governor and her staff, are fighting to have all the claims dismissed before going to trial.
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