A Maquoketa teen who conspired with three other teens to kill 16-year-old Michael McCune in Cedar Rapids in February 2023, was sentenced to 32 years in prison. There is no mandatory minimum.
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A Maquoketa teen who conspired with three other teens to kill 16-year-old Michael McCune in Cedar Rapids in February 2023, was sentenced to 32 years in prison. There is no mandatory minimum.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution and blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts to the agency.
A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested last week on charges that she stole more than $11,000 from her aunt while operating as her aunt’s financial power of attorney.
The former chief executive officer of a Vinton hospital -- who worked there only a month last year before being indicted on federal charges for defrauding another former employer of over $3.2 million -- was sentenced last week to over three years in prison.
Greenpeace criticizes the lawsuit as an example of corporations abusing the legal system to go after critics. A spokesperson for the developer said the case is about Greenpeace not following the law, not free speech.
Matthew Schleier, 46, was arrested in October on a charge of first-degree murder after police say he admitted to strangling his son, who he had been thinking about killing for a week.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department recently finished installing 70 stationary license plate reader cameras, which scan license plates and run them through national crime databases to search for missing person alerts, stolen vehicle reports, and arrest warrants.
A man has been arrested in connection with an assault that happened in the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall in December. The Iowa City Police Department has sought the public’s help identifying people of interest in the case since December, and they asked the public for help again after two people were arrested in January.
A Cedar Rapids man who was found with a body in his stalled car on I-80 in 2023 was sentenced to 55 years in prison in Poweshiek County District Court.
A University of Iowa police detective said an Iowa City man created social media profile of him using personal information, including his spouse’s name, and used “hateful discriminating language” that he would never use.
A Cedar Rapids man who took a gun his stepson used to fatally shoot a DoorDash delivery driver and then concealed it from police after the shooting, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Thursday in Linn County District Court.
A former Iowa City West High School paraeducator pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a student. He would meet her near the school during the day and take her to a residence in Coralville for sexual contact. He faces up to 5 years, but will ask for a deferred judgment and probation.
The judge’s order tells the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury to immediately offer job reinstatement to employees terminated on or about Feb. 13 and 14.
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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