An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he lit an air conditioning unit on fire in the alleyway behind a downtown Iowa City bar.
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An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he lit an air conditioning unit on fire in the alleyway behind a downtown Iowa City bar.
An Iowa City woman was arrested Monday on charges that she stabbed two people, one of whom is pregnant, in a downtown club early Sunday morning.
Police received reports Monday afternoon of gunfire in northeast Cedar Rapids and responding officers found a juvenile with minor injuries.
Two people were injured in a stabbing early Sunday morning in downtown Iowa City, according to a news release from the Iowa City Police Department.
A Marion man was arrested Friday on charges that he stole more than $100,000 from his elderly mother while he was acting as her caregiver.
The heartbroken mother of Kavon Johnson on Friday asked a judge to sentence her son’s killer to 50 years in prison and run the sentence consecutively to his other 50 year sentence for killing another man the day before on Jan. 27, 2022.
A Johnson County man who was arrested at the beginning of the month on various drug charges has now been charged with selling fentanyl to a 21-year-old man who died Oct. 2.
A Cedar Rapids man is accused of assaulting his mother in her North Liberty home and attempting to strangle her with an American flag.
A Scott County jury awarded more than $1.6 million to the family of a LeClaire man, finding his former Tipton doctor liable for not properly treating a staph bacteria infection while he was recovering from spine surgery.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for trying to kill his ex-girlfriend by stabbing her multiple time and striking her in the head with a claw hammer. The judge said his version of events was “ridiculous and unbelievable” and the victim was credible.
A Manchester family practice and obstetrics doctor was disciplined by the Iowa Board of Medicine for having a sexual relationship with an employee who was also his patient. He was cited and ordered to pay a $3,000 civil penalty.
Karen Anne Seeders, 43, an at-large member of the council and the Oelwein Community School District office manager, is among those charged.
An Urbandale man was arrested Monday in Johnson County on charges that he sexually abused a female child continuously over a four year period and regularly gave her marijuana before abusing her.
The murder trial for a Cedar Rapids man accused of fatally shooting a DoorDash driver last October has been reset to Dec. 10 in Linn County District Court. The shooter’s brother also was shot during the incident.
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