After a weekend of dead ends, authorities said they are re-evaluating their search for Xavior Harrelson, the 11-year-old boy who disappeared from a Montezuma mobile home park last week.
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After a weekend of dead ends, authorities said they are re-evaluating their search for Xavior Harrelson, the 11-year-old boy who disappeared from a Montezuma mobile home park last week.
Authorities are investigating two separate incidents of possible animal abuse after seven chickens and 13 guinea pigs were discarded in two separate incidents. Six of the seven chickens were alive, but the guinea pigs were dead.
A judge sentenced Tywun Moore to 10 years for his third carjacking and revoked his probation in two previous carjackings from 2018.
An unidentified juvenile driver was struck by the moving, stolen vehicle he and another juvenile passenger had just fled during a pursuit with a Linn County deputy, west of Urbana.
The girl described the sexual abuse during an interview at St. Luke’s Child Protection Center.
Man left a threatening voicemail telling Gov. Kim Reynolds she should be hung or shot “for treason” for imposing COVID-19 restrictions.
A 15-year-old girl told investigators Mathurin Petit, 41, sexually assaulted her over the course of three months in 2019. The last time he forced her into his van and sexual abused her, according to criminal complaint.
Sawyer Todd Henry, 27, of Cedar Rapids, faces charges of arson and public intoxication.
A jury has ruled in Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s first-degree murder trial in the 2018 slaying of Mollie Tibbetts.
Authorities are searching for a 10-year-old boy who went missing from a mobile home park in Poweshiek County Thursday morning. Xavior Harrelson was last seen around 11 a.m. Thursday in Montezuma.
While jury still deliberating, Hinson’s office sent ‘statement on guilty verdict’
Corridor law enforcement agencies have ’zero tolerance’ policies about discrimination, without using that term
Jurors deliberated for three hours Thursday without reaching a verdict in the trial.
Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s murder trial is in the jury’s hands.
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