A Cedar Rapids mother, tearing up and sobbing throughout her victim impact statement, listed the graphic injuries her infant suffered at the hands his father.
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A Cedar Rapids mother, tearing up and sobbing throughout her victim impact statement, listed the graphic injuries her infant suffered at the hands his father.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years for armed robbery of a Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust branch in January 2024. Victims say they will never forget the “horrific” day and they still are dealing with the trauma.
Joshua Perry, 34, was charged with the murder in January of Victoria Skarda, 33, who authorities say was the mother of his child.
A Cedar Rapids man who was intoxicated when he drove off an embankment and crashed into a motorcyclist on Interstate 380, killing him, was found guilty Monday by a Linn County jury of vehicular homicide and other charges.
An Ohio man who contacted a profile on a dating app he believed to be a 13-year-old girl for sex was given 4 years probation. An Indiana nonprofit, Bikers against Predators, set up the account and then turned the man over to police.
A Florida man is facing charges in Linn County, Iowa that he scammed a Marion woman out of $20,000 by telling her it was needed for her grandson who was in jail.
A North Liberty man was arrested over the weekend on charges that he hit a pedestrian with his car in November and left the scene.
Developers are suing over massive protests against the oil pipeline that crosses Iowa
Denise Fraley was 30 when she went missing from her home in Cedar Rapids in 1982. Her husband said she took off, but she left her 2-year-old daughter and everything she owned behind, including money in the bank. Will new blood evidence solve this case decades later?
Lawyers for Cedar Rapids man accused of hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018 asked a judge to toss out the murder charge because evidence doesn’t support theories of the charge. The defense also wants to exclude evidence of drug activities.
He and others worked together to forge and cash more than $13,000 worth of checks, with help from people recruited from homeless shelters and food banks, criminal complaints state.
An 18-year-old from North Liberty was arrested Thursday on charges that he possessed and distributed sexually explicit videos of children multiple times during the last four years.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department has released the names of three people who were found dead Thursday in what police believe was a double murder/suicide.
Three people are dead after what police believe was a murder/suicide Thursday in Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
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