Timothy Scott Towne, 58 of Cedar Rapids, was being held on several charges since Dec. 7 at the jail and faced a Feb. 24 trial, records show.
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Timothy Scott Towne, 58 of Cedar Rapids, was being held on several charges since Dec. 7 at the jail and faced a Feb. 24 trial, records show.
The inmate, who “had an extensive medical history and was serving time on several charges” since Dec. 7, according to the Sheriff’s Office, was not identified until notification of relatives.
Robert Teig, who spent 32 years with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Iowa before his retirement in 2011, filed the lawsuit last week in Polk County District Court.
State investigators found that two jails restrained inmates in chairs for excessive amounts of time. One jail used the restraints punitively, and the other confined someone who was having a mental health crisis.
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.
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