The father told investigators had been thinking about it for days and was “trying to decide” if and how to kill the child, a complaint shows. He is claiming insanity.
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The father told investigators had been thinking about it for days and was “trying to decide” if and how to kill the child, a complaint shows. He is claiming insanity.
A judge reset trial for Hiawatha man accused of conspiracy in the kidnapping, torture and strangulation of 20-year-old Melody Hoffman in February 2024.
A judge resets a trial that was set to start next week in a dispute over a prosecution report. A Cedar Rapids woman is accused of being drunk and crashing head-on into a motorcycle in October 2023, killing the cyclist.
A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested Thursday on charges that she shot a gun at the ground multiple times in order to intimidate people around her.
Children should be allowed to testify in Iowa courts remotely, rather than being forced to face their alleged abusers — on that, Iowa lawmakers agree. But lawmakers disagree on how exactly to ensure that protection, which was erased by a recent Iowa Supreme Court decision.
A man was arrested Wednesday in Las Vegas on Linn County charges of first-degree murder and nonconsensual termination of pregnancy, three weeks after a woman was found dead in Cedar Rapids.
The North Dakota jury delivered a verdict in favor of Energy Transfer on most counts. Energy Transfer estimated the damages awarded at nearly $700 million. A jury verdict form with the exact total was not immediately available. The pipeline cuts across 18 counties in Iowa.
A Cedar Rapids woman accused of trafficking a Dubuque teen in May 2024 had pleaded to amended and lesser charges and was sentenced to up to eight years in prison. She provided testimony against a Hiawatha man convicted of human trafficking a Dubuque teen.
A Maquoketa teen who conspired with three other teens to kill 16-year-old Michael McCune in Cedar Rapids in February 2023, was sentenced to 32 years in prison. There is no mandatory minimum.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution and blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts to the agency.
A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested last week on charges that she stole more than $11,000 from her aunt while operating as her aunt’s financial power of attorney.
The former chief executive officer of a Vinton hospital -- who worked there only a month last year before being indicted on federal charges for defrauding another former employer of over $3.2 million -- was sentenced last week to over three years in prison.
Greenpeace criticizes the lawsuit as an example of corporations abusing the legal system to go after critics. A spokesperson for the developer said the case is about Greenpeace not following the law, not free speech.
Matthew Schleier, 46, was arrested in October on a charge of first-degree murder after police say he admitted to strangling his son, who he had been thinking about killing for a week.
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