Pamela Lovette, the mother of Cordal Lewis, told his killer she hopes he “burns in hell” for fatally shooting him Jan. 27, 2022 in southeast Cedar Rapids.
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Pamela Lovette, the mother of Cordal Lewis, told his killer she hopes he “burns in hell” for fatally shooting him Jan. 27, 2022 in southeast Cedar Rapids.
An Oklahoma woman faces two felony charges and two misdemeanors after a deputy reported finding a black suitcase and black garbage bag containing vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department responded to a swatting call Friday morning at Harding Middle School.
An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he stole someone’s banking information and used it to pay more than $50,000 in bills and other purchases during a three-month period.
A Cedar Rapids woman is scheduled to plea on charges that she stole more than $10,000 from the Madison Elementary School Parent Teacher Association while she was the treasurer of the organization.
All the evidence has been presented in the Curtis Padgett murder trial, but none of the testimony explained the break that opened up the 16-year-old cold case.
A 13-year-old girl was found dead in Eldora Sunday after police responded to a report that a person had been shot, according to a news release from the Iowa Department of Public Safety.
Officials have released the names of three Cedar Rapids police officers who shot and killed a man who was armed and making threats on April 6.
The federal lawsuit accuses city police officers of “showing favoritism toward Christopher Prichard,” and that his relationship with the police in the Eastern Iowa community “enabled and fostered his ability to murder his estranged spouse, Angela Marie Prichard.”
The first year of Johnson County Civil Mental Health Court has been “challenging but rewarding,“ as officials identified some gaps for services that participants needed. The court had 12 participants in the first year.
Justice said recusal ‘based upon a personal relationship’ that happened ‘more than a decade ago.’
Crime scene investigators testified Friday about oven mitts soaked in blood and the murder weapon found in Cedar Rapisd apartment of Dennis First, who was fatally stabbed in 2007. The ex-girlfriend of Curtis Padgett, on trial in the killing, also testified Friday that he denied being the killer but had a suicidal incident and held a knife to his neck in 2010.
Arguments focus on which legal standard to apply
Testimony started Thursday in a 2007 cold case of a Cedar Rapids man severely beaten and stabbed to death at his Hawthorne Hills apartment. His former neighbor is on trial for the crime.
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