Linn County prosecutors can use a teen suspect’s interview with police at trial, a district court judge ruled Friday. He said the 16-year-old voluntarily talked to police, and they didn’t have to notify his parents because he was a murder suspect in the June 2020 fatal shooting of Malik Sheets.
Instead of conducting the depositions during the Hawkeyes’ upcoming bye week Oct. 19 and 20 — to “continue day-to-day until completed” — the two coaches are scheduled to be deposed after the end of the football season, in January.
A Cedar Rapids man who fatally shot Wayne Jones in 2019 over an argument about cigarettes faces up to 30 years in prison. He pleaded to voluntary manslaughter and other charges this week.
Farley’s body was found Sept. 24, 1971, in a wooded ravine in Cedar Rapids. Even though nothing would bring her sister back, Lisa Schenzel said the family wanted to see the case solved and find justice.
Parole board says Marion man convicted at 17 for robbing and killing a pizza delivery driver can move to minimum security prison. David Keegan, now 37, is serving life with possibility of parole.
Trial for an Illinois man charged in Iowa City fatal shooting last year was canceled and a tentative plea hearing is set for December.
CEDAR RAPIDS — The Cedar Rapids Police Department is seeking assistance from the public in identifying a vehicle involved in …
At about 3 p.m., Yevette A. Bradley, 49, of West Des Moines, approached the bank counter and gave the Coralville teller a handwritten note demanding money, and threatening murder if her demand was not met, according to a criminal complaint.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 10 years for sexually abusing a 4-year-old child. This is his second sex conviction.
The homicide case will be closed with no prosecution because suspect George Smith died in 2013 at the age of 94, police said.
Judge sentences a Cedar Rapids man to 34 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman who was incapacitated as he repeatedly assaulted her and filmed the crimes.
Hooded man tried to grab a 2-year-old child off the sidewalk, family said.
No one has come forward to help police identify the assailant or assailants who opened fire Friday night at a birthday party at a southwest quadrant hotel, wounding six people
Cedar Rapids police provided few details, but said those injured were taken to the hospital with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries.
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