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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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.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Sunday on charges that he entered several people’s garages and stole a vehicle, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
Iowa courts put measures in place to make court interpreters a priority to provide non-English speaking defendants, litigants, witnesses and victims in criminal and civil courts with equal access to justice.
Eighteen-year-old Kesean Ford requested 24 hours of furlough to attend West High School’s prom on Saturday. Sixth Judicial District Judge Liz Dupuich denied the request, writing in the ruling that she is concerned about the safety of the public and the teen.
A juvenile was arrested Thursday morning on charges that he fired a gun toward Hiawatha police officers, according to a news release from the Hiawatha Police Department.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested in Johnson County Wednesday on charges that he flashed a handgun at another driver during a road rage incident.
A Shellsburg man confessed to helping a Traer woman kill her husband in 2021. He was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder, about month after the victim’s wife was charged.
Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide.
A Cedar Falls convicted sex offenders was charged with sexual assault of child and not complying with sex offender registry requirements. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison.
Auditor Rob Sand’s office withheld nine emails between his off and two journalists, citing an open records law exemption for records that are part of an audit. The Iowa Supreme Court disagreed with that characterization and said Sand’s office must provide more evidence to justify withholding the emails from the conservative organization seeking their release.
A Palo woman accused of killing her stepmom in 2022 is on track to start May 13 in Benton County District Court. She is accused of suffocating her stepmom while her boyfriend choked her.
A judge on Friday delayed the sentencing for Duval Walker Jr., convicted of first-degree murder in March, so his lawyers can talk to a woman who says she witnessed the March 17, 2023, fatal shooting in a Marion bar but had not been interviewed by police. A prosecutor, who resisted the delay, said they had talked to the woman and she identifies Walker as the shooter.
After a Cedar Rapids man and woman led police on a high speed chase in Linn and Johnson counties, they drove into the Cedar River in an attempt to wade or swim across in escape but officers were waiting to arrest them.
A Vinton man pleaded to receiving child porn and faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years and possibly up to 40 years in federal prison. He was already serving probation at a residential facility in Benton County for possession of child porn when he deceived a facility employee into letting his use her phone, which he used to download the illegal images.
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