A judge sentences a West Liberty man to probation for stabbing man in large fight outside an Iowa City bar last year. He pleaded to a lesser charge and was given a deferred judgment.
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A judge sentences a West Liberty man to probation for stabbing man in large fight outside an Iowa City bar last year. He pleaded to a lesser charge and was given a deferred judgment.
Two people were arrested Thursday on human trafficking charges after police say they brought a minor from Dubuque to Cedar Rapids and forced her into prostitution.
Police in Eastern Iowa are seeing an increase this year in calls for service related to toy guns, especially gel blasters — fake guns that shoot small gel balls.
A Randalia man is facing charges after Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies found over 300 marijuana plants and 58 firearms in his house, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
Lawsuits claim the state law is preempted by the federal farm bill; is unconstitutionally vague; and violates interstate commerce protections.
A Cedar Rapids man was convicted for unintentionally causing the death of an Iowa City man who was fatally shot outside the H-Bar in 2022. The Iowa City hookah bar is prohibited from being open past 10 p.m., according to a recent court ruling.
A prosecutor said the prosecution was unable to provide a confession made by Curtis Padgett, who killed his friend, Dennis First, in 2007, to a witness because the witness died three months before trial. Padgett was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole.
One person was injured in a shooting Monday night in Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
An Iowa City man was arrested Monday on charges that he sexually abused a child at least fifteen times between December 2021 and February 2023.
Pierra Baugh, 34, of Cedar Rapids, pleads to lesser charges in the robbery and murder of Cordal Lewis, 19, in January 2022. She admitted to the planning and carrying out the robbery of Lewis with Kazius Childress, who fataly shot Lewis and was convicted in January.
The FBI’s Crime Complaint Center found Iowans reported nearly 4,000 complaints about cybercrime in 2023, a 26 percent increase compared with 2022.
A federal judge declared a mistrial when a jury in June deadlocked over whether a K-9 officer used excessive force when he deployed his dog on a 13-year-old boy who was misidentified as being involved in a stolen car incident in August 2020.
More than two years after a retired Iowa State University agronomy professor sued her former employer, the Board of Regents, and state for wage and gender discrimination, the Iowa Supreme Court has retained her appeal of a lower court’s August ruling limiting her ability to recover lost wages.
A mother, in her victim impact statement, said losing her son to gun violence is a “‘pain no parent should have to endure.” Cameron Barnes was fatally shot on St. Patrick’s Day last year by Duval Walker Jr. in a Marion bar.
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