A Marion man who was arrested in June on charges that he bludgeoned four people to death with a metal pipe has been cleared to stand trial after being evaluated by a psychologist.
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A Marion man who was arrested in June on charges that he bludgeoned four people to death with a metal pipe has been cleared to stand trial after being evaluated by a psychologist.
After years of delays for mental competency proceedings and from efforts to keep his statements to police from being used at trial, Anthony Depolis, 34, on Friday pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of his wife in July 2020.
Also, Iowa’s unemployment rate holds steady for a 4th straight month
A Marion man has been arrested in connection with a Saturday shooting in Waterloo that sent one person to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the knee.
His autopsy, released in December, found that the amount of ketamine in his blood was in the range used for general anesthesia during surgery.
A former treasurer of the Iowa City Girls Softball Association was convicted of a lesser charge for embezzling nearly $30,000 from the organization. She set up a new account in an attempt to conceal the discrepancies and withdrawals of cash.
Custom Fitness, on Wilson Avenue in southwest Cedar Rapids, is suing the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing. Also named as a defendant is Linn County, which is currently suing Custom Fitness over the company’s alleged refusal to comply with orders that the pool remain closed to protect the public health.
A Winneshiek County complaint, made public Tuesday, sheds a little more light on a 2017 homicide of a teen in Decorah, but doesn’t explain how a Georgia man killed her or if authorities have recovered a body. The suspect, who lived near Decorah in 2017, was charged with second-degree murder.
A Georgia man was charged Monday in a homicide of a 15-year-old girl who went missing from his rural Winneshiek farm in 2017.
Authorities have not announced any arrest in the killings of the Omaha men.
A former University of Iowa IT employee, who stole a California man’s identity in a stranger-tha- fiction scheme that spanned three decades, will be sentenced Oct. 25 in federal court. He faces up to 32 years in prison.
Christopher Wuchter, 38, of Earlville, who assaulted his girlfriend and her child over a puppy, was sentenced to illegally possessing firearms while being a drug user. Authorities found drugs and 30 firearms -- two were sawed-off shotguns -- in his home.
The federal appeals court ruling overturns a lower court’s injunction that had paused the 2023 law
He responded to a website for prostitution in 2023 and exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a supposed 13 year old -- who actually was an undercover police officer.
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