Surveillance video showed the two couples bludgeoned with a metal pipe in June of 2024 were attacked separately. The video was played during day four of the trial for Luke Truesdell, who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
A Johnson County judge has dismissed the case against a man accused of interfering with police who were investigating allegations of hazing at a University of Iowa fraternity a year ago on Nov. 15, 2024.
One man was injured in a shooting Saturday in northeast Cedar Rapids, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
A 22-year-old is accused of firing a gun during an altercation with another man Friday afternoon in Iowa City.
Andrew Shaw was sentenced to up to 50 years in prison for the Dec. 14, 2018 fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley. Shaw is the fourth man sentenced in Bagley’s killing.
Luke Truesdell, when asked what happened June 5, 2024 after four people were bludgeoned with a metal pipe, told a detective he “hit them” and where authorities could find the murder weapon — a metal pipe.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Davenport employees are not immune from liability in a lawsuit after the deadly partial collapse of a downtown apartment building in May 2023.
Less than an hour after reporting gunshots fired near the University of Iowa campus and urging the public to “shelter in place,” the Iowa City Police Department characterized the incident as “isolated” and that the public can “resume normal activity.”
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating a Thursday afternoon shooting that left one man with injuries that are not life-threatening, according to a press release from the police department.
The brother of one of the four people who were bludgeoned with a metal pipe in June 2024 testified Thursday in the trial for a Marion man, charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Matt Brown said he found a horrific scene as he walked into an outbuilding, finding his brother, barely alive, and three others dead.
A former state public health spokeswoman alleged she was fired in 2020 for fulfilling open records requests to journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration Thursday to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November.
More than a year after he was fired from his post as executive director to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, Guillermo Morales has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in the U.S. District Court.
A prosecutor, during his opening statement, said a Marion man ambushed and bludgeoned four people with a 3-foot metal pipe on June 5, 2024. He said surveillance video and evidence found at the scene will point to one attacker: Luke Truesdell. The defense said there’s no evidence of an ambush or that Truesdell did it.
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