Cedar County online predator sentenced to 10 years for child porn involving 13-year-old Minnesota girl, who he kidnapped and sexually assaulted last year.
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Cedar County online predator sentenced to 10 years for child porn involving 13-year-old Minnesota girl, who he kidnapped and sexually assaulted last year.
Attorneys for owners argued the trial judge wrongly “took an advocacy role” on the side of the animal rights groups.
Drew Wagner — convicted for holding down Chris Bagley as another man stabbed him to death in December 2018 — was sentenced Friday to 47 years in prison. He was given the maximum sentences on lesser charges.
Police arrested a 25-year-old Illinois man Thursday after he allegedly led officers on a high-speed chase on Interstate 380.
Drew Wagner, the Cedar Rapids man who started a fight with Chris Bagley for robbing their drug dealer and then …
Anamosa inmate, Thomas Woodard, pleaded guilty to two first-degree murder charges, and one each of attempted murder and second-degree kidnapping. He faces two life sentences without chance for parole.
Thomas Allen Woodard, 39, is charged with first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping and attempted murder.
Vehicular homicide trial for Urbana man who ran over woman in parking lot in 2019 is now reset to next year. Witnesses told police he rapidly accelerated in reverse, hitting and killing a Center Point woman.
Police arrested a Davenport man Thursday after he was allegedly spotted in a stolen pickup truck at a Kwik Star in northeast Cedar Rapids.
Police said the 44-year-old man and his teenage son went into the Cedar River on July 16 to cool off. The man then dipped under the water and never resurfaced.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators as they marched past the couple's home in a luxury St. Louis enclave last year.
A former Iowa State University football player has been arrested in connection with an assault of a University of Iowa basketball star in May.
Cedar Rapids man, who confessed to killing Dexter Meeks and trying to kill his brother in 2011, provided a false confession. He was in the Clinton County Jail at the time.
Gregory Allen Showalter, 61, of Ottumwa, turned himself in at the Wapello County Law Enforcement Center on Tuesday morning in the death of 60-year-old Elizabeth Showalter, also of Ottumwa.
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