A woman who worked at an Iowa center that provides services for troubled youths has died, days after she was assaulted by a juvenile at the facility, officials said.
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A woman who worked at an Iowa center that provides services for troubled youths has died, days after she was assaulted by a juvenile at the facility, officials said.
The stepdaughter of a woman who was found suffocated in her bed in 2022 told investigators her boyfriend did it and she couldn’t stop him. He was convicted last year.
Civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on Monday accusing an Iowa sheriff’s department of mishandling the collection of jail fees, some of which helped fund recreational expenses like laser tag and a cotton candy machine at a shooting range.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on charges that he sexually abused a child repeatedly while the child was between the ages of 6 and 12.
A Cedar Rapids man sentenced Friday to up to 50 years in prison for fatally shooting Jorge Maldonaldo-Vazquez on Feb. 15, 2023, in Cedar Rapids. Maldonaldo-Vazquez was trying to sleep and, after telling his roommate and her friend to be quiet, the friend -- Brannon Johnson, 22, of Cedar Rapids -- fatally shot him.
The Iowa Department of Corrections issued a nationwide warrant for the arrest of Pieper Lewis this month after learning she had been removed from a treatment center in Atlanta and then failed to show up to probation meetings.
A former social worker with the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics who was previously charged with the sexual exploitation of a patient is now facing two additional sexual exploitation charges related to a different patient.
For the second time this year, an Eastern Iowa government said it was scammed out of thousands of dollars after cybercriminals hacked email accounts.
After police conducted a search and found no threat, an all-clear was given at 1:36 p.m. Wednesday, according to the police department.
An Iowa City man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting and paralyzing a victim last year in downtown Iowa City. He must serve five years before being eligible for parole.
A judge takes Iowa City teen, who is accused in drag racing fatality, off house arrest but continues GPS monitoring and adds a curfew and $30,000 bail. Off house arrest, the teen also won’t receive jail credit towards a possible prison sentence if convicted.
A Georgia man was arrested Monday in Iowa City on charges that he and two other men scammed someone out of $15,600 by pretending to be law enforcement officers.
A registered sex offender living in Cedar Rapids was arrested Friday on charges that he picked up two tween girls and touched one inappropriately before they escaped his vehicle, according to a criminal complaint.
A judge convicted a Cedar Rapids man of first-degree murder Monday for fatally beating and stabbing his friend, Dennis First, in 2007. The bench trial was last month in Linn County.
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