The Iowa State Bar Association has released its review of judges to provide guidance to voters Nov. 5 as they vote whether to retain a state Supreme Court justice, four appeal judges and 64 associate and district court judges.
The new University of Iowa Law Technology Law Clinic gives students the chance to show defense attorneys and others how police are using surveillance and other technology to boost criminal cases, and how can they defend their clients.
A prosecutor dropped a the harassment charge against a UI FIJi member, two days after a woman, who sued the frat member and the fraternity and its national affiliates, announced the lawsuit had been settled.
The mother of Cordal Lewis, who was robbed and fatally shot in 2022, told a woman involved in the plan to rob him that ended in murder, that she wanted her to “suffer” and feel “heartbreak and emptiness” as she and her family have endured.
A young man was injured Thursday night in a shooting in southeast Cedar Rapids, according to police.
The shooting occurred in the school's commons area, where about 50 students and staff had gathered for breakfast before classes.
The murder trial for the Cedar Rapids man charged with hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018 has been bumped again. This time to June 10.
A Fort Dodge man was arrested in Linn County Wednesday and charged with violently killing a cat.
A woman who sued two FIJI fraternity members for sexually assaulting her in 2020 and the fraternities national affiliates has resolved her lawsuit against all parties.
He was arrested last Friday when he arrived at the location in Iowa City where he had agreed to meet the would-be child, a complaint shows.
A Clayton County farmer, who was previously sued for verbally and physically assaulting migrant workers, was sentenced last week to over 15 years in federal prison for stealing livestock, wire fraud and a bankruptcy fraud scheme.
A Marion woman who was kidnapped, stabbed and strangled to death in February was pregnant or had been recently pregnant before her death, according to information revealed during a Friday pretrial hearing in Linn County District Court. The lawyer for one of the men accused in that slaying asked a judge to keep that information out of trial.
The second lawsuit filed by the mother of Lorena Schulte, the nurse who was killed by Anamosa prison inmates in 2021, has been dismissed by judge for failing to exhaust administrative remedies with the state and missing deadlines.
The Iowa Supreme Court denied appeal for one Fairfield teen who killed their Spanish teacher in 2021 and asked the court to toss out the 35-year mandatory minimum of his life sentence.
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