State agency officials and legislative leaders continued to hurl accusations at each other over the state’s oversight of the Judicial Branch operations
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State agency officials and legislative leaders continued to hurl accusations at each other over the state’s oversight of the Judicial Branch operations
A 16-year-old who shot a 17-year-old last year during a basketball game in Marion will be sent to the State Training School in Eldora until he turns 18. A judge will then decide whether to release him or sentence him to probation or prison to serve remainder of term.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Monday on charges that he attempted to meet with two girls he believed were 14 and 12 years old after telling them that he wanted to perform sex acts on them.
A Coralville woman was arrested in Jones County earlier this month on charges that she enabled the suicide of a friend in 2021.
Upending a Polk County District Court ruling and reinforcing precedent for wage discrimination cases in Iowa, the state Supreme Court has found a former and long-time Iowa State University professor could recover damages going back more than a decade for being paid less than her male colleagues.
A youth opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing two people in the final week before Christmas break. The shooter also died, police said.
A Cedar Rapids landlord found his first-floor tenant, Dorothy J. Rose, 43, lying face down in her apartment on Nov. 28, 2006. Police found Rose had been strangled with an electrical cord and another item. The murder remains unsolved but is being reviewed again by cold case investigators.
A judge, in two separate pretrial hearings Friday, said trials for Huston Danker and Karina Cooper, both accused of killing Cooper’s husband in 2021, will go forward. Danker will be tried Jan. 21 in Johnson County and Cooper on Feb. 25 in Linn County.
Most people were accused of distributing large quantities of methamphetamine, and their prison sentences were as long as 35 years.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Tuesday on a charge that he stole almost $20,000 from his neighbor, who has dementia.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office said that a red Chevrolet Silverado was driving at a high rate of speed and erratically northbound on Highway 13 from Highway 30.
A Cedar Rapids man who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol was resentenced this week to time served -- about 11 months in federal prison. He was originally sentenced to 30 months before an appeals court tossed out an obstruction charge.
A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning and left his wife and three children and was believed to have been in Eastern Europe willingly returned to the U.S. after roughly four months and is in custody, a sheriff said Wednesday.
A Johnson County jury Tuesday found Renard Winfield Jr., of Gary, Ind., guilty of first-degree murder in what prosecutors called a revenge plot where Winfield posed as a woman to lure Tommy Curry, of Iowa City, to his death. The jury deliberated nearly four hours on Tuesday.
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