A North Liberty woman was charged last week with first-degree harassment after police say she threatened the principal of her daughter’s school.
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A North Liberty woman was charged last week with first-degree harassment after police say she threatened the principal of her daughter’s school.
A Cedar Rapids man who is charged with vehicular homicide after a fatal crash last month had a .189 blood alcohol level more than two hours after the crash, according to a criminal complaint.
More than a month after a motorcyclist was killed in a southwest Cedar Rapids crash, the driver of a sport utility vehicle police said cut in front of him was booked Wednesday into the Linn County Jail.
Union officials say 2 correctional officers at Iowa State Penitentiary were “violently attacked” Monday by an inmate during a routine procedure. The correctional officers across the state are being asked to work in dangerous and understaffed conditions, officials said.
Leo Christopher Kelly was freed last Thursday after an appeals court agreed to throw out one of his convictions
A Marion man who is charged with killing four people with a metal pipe in June told law enforcement that “he felt better after this and the pain in his head was no longer there,” according to an unsealed search warrant. Detectives found him sitting on a sidewalk near the crime scene when they arrived.
Motor vehicle theft shot up nearly 13%. The motor vehicle theft rate — nearly 319 per 100,000 people — was the highest last year since 2007.
Prosecutors plan to propose a law for assault by groping because in current law it can only be charged as a simple assault - the same as if you pushed or shoved a victim. Many times these groping incidents are “traumatic” for the victims but don’t rise to the level of sexual abuse, as defined by Iowa law.
Trial for Andrew Shaw, accused of hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018, has been bumped to Feb. 4. The trial was previously set for Nov. 5. Defense said it needed more time to prepare for trial.
A Pennsylvania man was convicted this week for making false claims against his fantasy football player rival after they had an online dispute. He told authorities his rival planned a mass shooting in Oslo, Norway, and bombing at the University of Iowa.
Marion police are investigating an attack early Thursday in which a man was injured by a person armed with a knife.
An Iowa City man who was charged earlier this year with multiple counts of sexual exploitation of minors and released without bail has been arrested again on similar charges.
A Des Moines man was sentenced to 20 years for sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl between 2021 and 2023. Her parents gave heart-wrenching statements, telling the judge of the long-lasting harm he caused.
When officers approached the driver to arrest him, he pulled out a handgun and began shooting at them, police Sgt. Paul Parizek said.
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