Former Clutier city clerk embezzled over $108,000 while employed from 2016 to 2018. She wrote unauthorized checks to herself, deposited residents’ utility payments into her checking account and used the city’s credit card for personal purchases. She was sentenced to 2 years in federal prison following state court theft conviction.
Chemical castration uses medications that block testosterone production to decrease sex drive. Surgical castration is a much more invasive procedure.
Chief Judge Thomas Bower of the Iowa Court of Appeals will take early retirement in July after serving 31 years on the bench and a total of 38 years in the legal profession. He says it’s time to spend more time with his family, including a new grandchild, and do some traveling.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Monday to 50 years in prison on a charge of second-degree murder after he fatally assaulted his 71-year-old mother in 2020.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced last week to 30 years in federal prison on charges that he sold methamphetamine and laundered the funds associated with the drug trafficking.
An Iowa City man — with an accumulating history of protest-styled political activism — is suing the University of Iowa, its police, and a public records officer for a lack of what he characterized as legally-required transparency around his December police encounter.
Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
Shellsburg man accused of helping Traer woman kill her husband in 2021 asked a judge Thursday to lower his $1 million bail because it’s unreasonable. Prosecutor wants it hiked up to $5 million because he believes Danker has access to “large sum of cash.”
The Buchanan County Jail didn’t follow state and county policies for checking on inmates, the suit asserts.
Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks says prosecutors will file about 25 percent fewer felonies in fiscal year 2024, which is the first time violent crimes have declined since post-pandemic spikes. He noted the office also successfully prosecuted eight homicides in the first four months of the year.
Police in Marion are asking for the public’s help identifying a person who is accused of using a gun to rob a Kum & Go early Saturday morning.
A Marion woman, crying throughout her victim impact statement Friday in Linn County District Court, says she still waits for her 17-year-old son to come home even though she knows he was fatally shot May 10, 2023. Her only son, she said, should be graduating from high school this Sunday.
A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s Capitol pleaded guilty Friday to a reduced charge in return for prosecutors dropping a felony hate crime count.
The Iowa Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a Cedar Rapids doctor being sued for sexual exploitation and negligence by a former patient.
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