An 18-year-old from Des Moines was arrested Friday in Linn County on charges that he abused two children while he was living in Cedar Rapids a few years ago.
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An 18-year-old from Des Moines was arrested Friday in Linn County on charges that he abused two children while he was living in Cedar Rapids a few years ago.
A University of Northern Iowa employee is suing the institution after she was demoted from an assistant vice president position, alleging discrimination against her age that led to her taking a pay cut as well as her title and some duties being handed off to younger coworkers.
The Coralville Police Department released the name Friday of a man who was shot to death at a mobile home park in Coralville Wednesday evening.
A northwest Iowa man accused of cutting and stealing more than 50 trees from a public area — including a 175-year-old bur oak — owes about $58,000 in fines and restitution.
An Iowa Supreme Court ruling will allow a lawsuit, filed the family of a Fayette County mother and daughter who drowned while tubing after going over a low-head dam near Clermont in June 2020, to go forward. The court overturned a district court dismissal of their petition in 2023.
Keaton Scott Northup, an officer in the Waterloo Police Department, is accused of driving his motorcycle at speeds in excess of 100 mph and weaving in and out of traffic before the fatal crash. A blood test indicated his blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit.
Two drug traffickers distributed more than 100 pounds of meth in Iowa and they took a portion of that money — over $335,000 — to Jose Eladio Medina Valenzuela, who then worked with others to get the drug money to supply sources in Mexico.
A 23-year-old Cedar Rapids man pleaded to lesser charges for sexually abusing a girl since she was 6 years old. The abuse continued until she was 12 years old. He faces up to 22 years in prison.
A Tipton man was arrested this week on charges of vehicular homicide in relation to a fatal crash that happened in July 2024.
A Marion man was arrested Wednesday in Cedar Rapids on multiple traffic related charges after police say he was clocked driving a motorcycle 177 mph on Highway 100 and Highway 30
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While police were on their way to the scene, dispatchers informed them the disturbance had escalated to a shooting, according to the release.
A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to four years in federal prison on multiple charges of laundering and fraud related to a fake email scheme that caused a Catholic church in Cedar Rapids to lose more than $400,000.
Two Iowa City residents were charged Wednesday with misusing more than $500,000 that belonged to an elderly family member, for whom one of the individuals was caregiver.
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