Police said officers were called just after 9 p.m. to the 1700 block of C Avenue NE for reports of gunfire. When they arrived, officers encountered a man – later identified as Handley – running from the 1700-block alleyway between C and D avenues.
An Iowa City mother said she felt numb when the Iowa Board of Parole announced its decision last Tuesday to give Lamar Wilson, 27, work release after serving only about three years of his 24-year sentence for killing her son, Kaleek Jones, 22, on the Ped Mall on Aug. 27, 2017.
David Rafael Walker, 34, went to UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Hospital by private vehicle for a gunshot wound to his leg.
A Cedar Rapids woman is charged with insurance fraud for submitting false medical claims to her insurance company. The claims totaled over $7,000.
A state court judge declined Friday to stop enforcement of the Iowa law, saying there is no evidence that any school board would immediately impose a mask mandate if the law wasn't in effect.
Officers were dispatched to hospital where men arrived with wounds and to call about a fight at around the same time
The Iowa State Bar Association set up the hotline to help people with pandemic-related legal questions.
A Cedar Rapids man and woman identified in Walford double fatality on Wednesday. Leo Alan Ray and Stacey Lynn Watts, both 35, were in the Nissan Altima that crashed into a dump truck while fleeing from a deputy on Highway 151 north of Walford.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has released the identity of the man and woman who died Wednesday after a collision with an oncoming dump truck.
A 44-year-old Monticello man was identified by the Iowa State Patrol as being ejected during single-vehicle rollover crash on Sunday.
Aaron Hinke was sentenced to 3 years in prison for placing an improvised bomb behind a La Motte man’s woodshed. The homeowner’s 5-year-old daughter found the “Looney Tunes bomb.”
A New Mexico man sentenced to two years probation for flying a plane without a license. The plane had engine failure over Iowa and landed near Waterloo.
A Solon man accused of sexually abusing a child and a woman over a period of time has pleaded to lesser charges. He faces up to four years in prison but is asking for a deferred judgment.
Police said Benjamin Brewer, 33, of Cedar Rapids, used a nail gun to rob a man. He faces counts of robbery, assault and criminal mischief.
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