A Madrid, Iowa, man was arrested Wednesday in Johnson County on 53 counts of possessing a depiction of a minor in a sex act after a police search warrant revealed 53 pictures and videos saved to his phone, according to a criminal complaint.
A Cedar Rapids man, who was armed and attempted to hold a pregnant woman at his Marion repair business last year, was convicted in for firearms and faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
During a hearing Wednesday, Johnson County Attorney Rachel Zimmermann Smith said if another Hawkeye Waste employee is harmed — like employee Matthew Reuwsaat, 61, a skid loader operator who was crushed by the equipment last year — that employee wouldn’t be covered by worker’s compensation insurance for a workplace accident.
A Decorah man was arrested Monday after a Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office K-9 disarmed him by biting a gun out of his hands.
President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration's handling of much-hyped records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, which Trump now calls a “Hoax.”
A state request for proposals sheds lights on the reasons why Iowa is considering privatizing its prison health care services, potentially entering an arena that has faced issues in other states, according to advocates.
The settlement, approved last week by the Cedar Rapids City Council, is meant to help the city “avoid the further cost of litigation” without admitting legal liability.
Two men were arrested Sunday night after a stabbing in Cedar Rapids that left three people injured, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
A Linn County jury deliberated three hours before finding a Traer woman guilty of first-degree murder. The prosecution said she planned with her “lover“ — a much younger Shellsburg man — to kill her husband and start a new life with his $500,000 life insurance policy. She was the sole beneficiary.
Former Washington Mayor Jaron Rosien was handed a deferred judgment with two years of probation, as well as 50 hours of community service, a handful of fines, and a place on the state’s sexual offender registry at a sentencing hearing in Washington Friday morning.
Matthew Schleier will claim insanity at trial, and the prosecution will have an independent psychological evaluation performed in August and needs more time to prepare.
Karina Cooper, accused of fatally shooting her husband in 2021, testified the majority of her affair with Huston Danker was “online” and she didn’t think he was serious about killing her husband. After the murder, she said she didn’t tell police becuase she was scared of Danker.
The Iowa County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday issued a news release with more details of the June 20 shooting along Interstate 80.
Police found drugs, money and a firearm in his car during a traffic stop in 2024.
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