The information technology director for Clayton County was arrested Wednesday on charges that he had almost 5,000 pictures and videos of child pornography on his laptop. The county supervisors voted Thursday to fire him.
Linn County Board of Supervisors approved a settlement Wednesday in a sex harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by a former legal assistant against the county and initially against Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks. Maybanks and another prosecutor were dismissed from the suit before the settlement was approved.
Lightning strikes caused fires in 2023 and 2024 that scattered debris and damaged his crops, farmer near Mechanicsville says.
The mother of Myron Snyder Jr., 21, said her grief is “just as bad” as the night her son was fatally shot while making a DoorDash delivery on Oct. 5, 2023. She said “not everything happens for a reason” because this was a “senseless, horrific and life-changing crime.”
State charges will be dropped against a Nevada man accused of stalking and threatening his ex-fiancee, including to kill her and others during the upcoming ISU graduation ceremony in Ames. A state prosecutor said federal charges will be filed against the man. No indictment or charges have been filed at this time.
An Iowa City man was arrested over the weekend on charges that he conspired with another man — who has already pleaded guilty to his own theft charges — to steal more than $5,000 from the other man’s co-workers.
A Solon woman was arrested Monday on charges that she stole more than $50,000 from Budget Rental Iowa City, where she worked as a manager, by altering rental agreements and receiving payments on her personal accounts.
The father of a woman, who was sexually assaulted in her home in Iowa City three years ago, spoke to her attacker Monday as the man was sentenced to 50 years in prison, on top of the 100 years he is already serving for similar attacks in Black Hawk County.
A Johnson County sheriff’s deputy last week responded to a Lone Tree home where authorities say the man choked a woman until she nearly lost consciousness, leaving visible injuries on her neck.
A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested Friday on charges of homicide by vehicle and operating under the influence in relation to a fatal crash that happened in December, according to a press release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office.
Family members of Kenyauta Vesey-Keith, who was murdered in 2023 by Denzel Wilson, gathered in a courtroom Friday with homemade signs to support Vesey-Keith’s mother and sister, who spoke during Wilson’s sentencing. Wilson was sentenced to life in prison.
The Iowa Supreme Court has removed from the bench a magistrate who questioned the veracity of an alleged sexual assault victim because he was a teenage male and asked whether a defendant in a separate case was a “wetback.”
The Iowa City Police Department is asking for the public’s help finding information related to the fatal shooting of an Iowa City woman in December.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he drowned his dog in a bathtub.
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