A Des Moines man has been indicted on eight charges of sex trafficking four Iowa women for prostitution in Illinois and North Dakota. If convicted, he would face a mandatory minimum of 15 years on each sex trafficking charge and up to 10 years on each transportation charge.
Longtime law enforcement officer and peer support advocate Jeremy Sprague is set to join the department on Aug. 21.
The pilot instructed passengers over the intercom to stay in their seats and follow flight attendant instructions, and also asked any passengers who were willing and able to help the flight attendants subdue Nikprelaj.
A Marion man was arrested Saturday morning after police say he stabbed another man in the shoulder.
An investigation revealed a history of domestic abuse by an Iowa City man charged earlier this year with fatally assaulting the mother of his toddler.
The Department of Homeland Security should have raised its arguments sooner, according to a federal judge who in May granted a preliminary injunction the government now is fighting that prevents it from terminating the immigration status of four University of Iowa international students.
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced Friday that she would be dismissing a lawsuit filed in March against Winneshiek County Sheriff Dan Marx that accused him of failing to comply with federal immigration enforcement.
A federal judge on Friday appeared to indicate she plans to grant a preliminary injunction against at least parts of the new law, which was designed to help small pharmacies and address prescription drug costs
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday morning and charged with willful injury resulting in serious injury after an alleged stabbing on North 10th Avenue.
A Nebraska man was arrested in Cedar Rapids Thursday evening after he caused a disturbance on a flight from Omaha to Detroit, resulting in the plane diverting to The Eastern Iowa Airport.
The trial for Logan Kimpton, accused of helping his roommate and another man kidnap, torture and strangle a Marion woman in 2024, has been reset.
A spokesperson for Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, told States Newsroom the panel approved Bove’s nomination in a 12-0 vote — that is, despite panel rules that state “at least two members of the minority” must be present to transact committee business.
A stolen car was discovered Thursday morning in the Iowa River by the Curtis Bridge Boat Ramp, near North Liberty, according to a press release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.
A former western Iowa nurse was sentenced to over 3 years in federal prison for bank fraud, stealing drugs from nursing home patients and illegally possessing firearms.
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