An 85-year-old Solon man who had gone out to work in his yard was found in a nearby pond several hours later.
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An 85-year-old Solon man who had gone out to work in his yard was found in a nearby pond several hours later.
Ron Novak’s body was found beaten, shot, and frozen in an unheated storeroom of his rural Walker home on Christmas Eve, 1983. On Wednesday, nearly 42 years later, the Linn County Sheriff’s Office announced it has arrested an Oregon man they believe was Novak’s killer — or, one of them.
A Chicago man was sentenced in Johnson County court Tuesday to 10 years in prison on a charge of third-degree sexual assault.
A Marion man who crashed into a vehicle, causing injuries to a woman that ended her pregnancy, is now facing indecent contact charges. He is accused of exposing himself to one child and having inappropriate contact with another.
An Anamosa man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for causing a fatal crash in February 2023 in Springville. He was intoxicated and crashed into a vehicle driven by a Springville man, who was only about a mile from his home.
An Iowa City man was arrested early Tuesday morning after police say he shot another man Monday night and escaped the scene on a stolen bike.
Police in Cedar Rapids are investigating an early Sunday incident in which shots were fired in the 200 block of Second Avenue SE.
The Iowa Supreme Court will allow families of four Tyson Waterloo plant workers who died of COVID in 2020 to go forward with negligence suits against executives and supervisiors, but not against the company.
Three new sexual exploitation charges were filed this week against a former University of Iowa social worker who previously has been charged with multiple counts of sexually exploiting his patients.
Johnson County filed an injunction against Hawkeye Waste Systems to stop operating the business and its affiliated companies because none of the companies have workers’ comp insurance. The owner and managers were charged last month in the case following an investigation of an employee being crushed by a skid loader in 2024.
Aisha Ahmad Nyala will have to spend a year in a residential correctional facility and will be on supervised probation for up to five years.
A Colorado man who threatened an Iowa City bank teller with a gun was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a January robbery. He attempted to withdraw his plea made in March, but the judge denied it.
A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested last week on charges that she misused Social Security deposits and stole thousands of dollars from a disabled woman for whom who she was the legal guardian for more than 10 years.
A professional hunter is suing a state Department of Natural Resources officer whose alleged false claims damaged his business and reputation.
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