Members of the billionaire Sackler family that own Purdue Pharma are close to a deal to increase their contribution to the OxyContin maker's sweeping opioid settlement that includes Iowa.
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Members of the billionaire Sackler family that own Purdue Pharma are close to a deal to increase their contribution to the OxyContin maker's sweeping opioid settlement that includes Iowa.
A Cedar Rapids man failed to appear last week on a charge of threatening a Linn County prosecutor because he was upset that his friend was convicted for killing Chris Bagley in 2018.
Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness announced Monday she won’t seek re-election in November and will retire at the end of the year. She was the first woman elected to the office and has served 15 years as the top prosecutor.
A Coralville man was convicted Monday of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl. He faces up to 10 years in prison. He plans to ask for a deferred judgment - meaning no prison time, only probation.
An Urbana man, who was driving intoxicated, was sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for running over and killing a woman in the parking lot of a bar in Center Point in 2019.
The complaint said Jarvis was seen folding up a wad of cash and placing it into his left jacket pocket, then folding up another wad of cash and placing it into his right pocket.
The criminal complaint said her boyfriend shot the man in his torso during a drug deal
Two teens responsible for killing a University of Iowa student, Malik Sheets, 20, during a party June 18, 2020, were sentenced to prison time Friday. Christian Emedi was sentenced to 15 years in prison and Marshawn Jeffries was sentenced to five years. Emedi was the actual shooter. Jeffries had a gun at the party and threatened others.
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A taxpayer-funded tourism agency in Alabama is standing by its chief executive after he pleaded guilty to felony fraud in Cedar Rapids, where a music festival he oversaw lost millions.
Police are investigating a second fatal shooting in less than 24 hours in southeast Cedar Rapids, and court records show the two men who died had been involved in a fight in 2020.
His efforts to rig the drawings were uncovered after Iowa Lottery officials grew suspicious over an anonymous attempt to claim a $16.5 million Hot Lotto jackpot.
Officers found 19-year-old Cordal R. Lewis lying dead in the street with one or more gunshot wounds, in the 300 block of 31st Street Drive SE on Thursday afternoon.
A former Fairfield man nabbed by internet task force officers for distributing child porn was sentenced to over 14 years in federal prison. He also must pay each of the 11 identified victims $3,000 in restitution.
Aaron McCreight, former president and CEO of defunct GoCR tourism agency, admitted to providing inflated numbers of ticket sales, revenue to get a bigger loan to fund ‘newbo evolve,’ which resulted in $2.3 million loss.
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