Robert James Smith will be formally charged next week in U.S. District Court with one count of deprivation of rights under color of law. He is accused of willfully depriving “Victim 1” on Sept. 25, 2017, of the right to be free from unreasonable seizures and unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer, the indictment states.
An 18-year-old Cedar Rapids resident who received probation earlier this year for his role in a fatal drug robbery has been charged with two counts of attempted murder.
Darryl Minniefield Jr., 34, is facing a first-degree theft charge for attempting to steal a $47,000 car from Carousel Preowned in Iowa City.
A Linn County judge has ordered a Cedar Rapids contractor to pay $40,000 as part of a settlement for improper asbestos removal during renovations at Washington High School in 2014 and 2015.
Mohamed Traore, 26, was arrested following a meeting of the city’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which he is chair of. The police department released a statement saying it could have addressed the matter more privately.
Marion man accused of dragging a neighbor by her hair into her bedroom and sexually assaulting her. He also hit, kicked and strangled her to the point of unconsciousness when she told him to stop.
A 37-year-old Marion man has been charged with sexual abuse after a woman told investigators the man engaged in a sex act by force or against her will at his home in Marion.
One of the teens charged with fatally shooting Malik Sheets last summer has a tentative plea deal in the works. Marshawn Jeffries, charged with first-degree murder and obstruction of prosecution, will likely plead to lesser charges.
Heartbroken to learn Fairfield High School Spanish language teacher Nohema Graber had been murdered, friends Friday recalled how she influenced their lives.
Davenport man sentenced to life in prison without parole for fatally shooting a Moline man in the parking lot of a Cedar Rapids convenience store in 2019.
The charges reveal for the first time what police believe happened the evening that Gabriel Heefner, a lance corporal in the U.S. Marines, was found in a crashed car in the residential neighborhood with a gunshot wound to the head
Fayette County man killed in farming accident near Clermont.
16-year-olds Willard Noble Chaiden Miller and Jeremy Everett Goodale are accused of killing Nohema Graber, 66, a Fairfield High School Spanish class teacher.
A defiant Gov. Kim Reynolds promised “immediate” legal action to a Biden administration rule requiring larger businesses to have their employees get COVID-19 vaccinations or face regular workplace testing.
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