Crime & Courts

The child was in another apartment, but the mother had to be rescued from a bathroom window. She told police she planned to kill herself and her child.

A bitcoin company is granted an appeal for over $28,000 in seized cash retrieved from bitcoin ATMs last year. The cash was seized in a fraud investigation. A district court judge had ordered the money to be returned to the alleged fraud victims -- but the Iowa Supreme Court disagreed.

But the state must allow nonmandatory programs like LGBTQ student groups.

A federal judge has made more permanent an initial temporary restraining order she issued last month blocking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from terminating the status of four University of Iowa international students by granting a preliminary injunction through the summation of their case.

A New York man who sent sexually explicit photos and asked for some in exchange from a person he believed was a 14-year-old girl on an dating app last August has pleaded guilty. He faces up to 10 years in prison.

An Iowa City man was sentenced to nearly 17 years in federal prison for distributing and receiving child porn. He electronic devices contained “hundreds” of images, including children under age 1.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Sunday night, after police responded to reports of a shooting, on charges that he threatened a woman with a knife.

Johnson County Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Hynes still relishes the challenge of starting the Tiffin patrol division as enters it’s second year of a partnership between the sheriff’s office and the City of Tiffin. Hynes says it’s been the “most rewarding” of his career.

A Linn County jury convicts Chicago man for robbing a Marion couple at gunpoint last July. He faces up to 75 years in prison.

The Iowa Supreme Court has reversed a district court decision that cleared the way for election officials to distribute voter materials in languages other than English.

Winneshiek County Sheriff Dan Marx is asking a judge to dismiss an Iowa Attorney General Office’s petition against him for not cooperating with federal authorities to enforce immigration laws because his Facebook post that sparked the dispute has been removed -- so there’s no “ongoing violation.”.

A Coralville man was arrested Thursday after a police investigation found he had 19 videos of child pornography saved on his computer, authorities said.