Two Cedar Rapids men have been arrested in relation to a shooting that happened last week at a Marion Motel.
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Two Cedar Rapids men have been arrested in relation to a shooting that happened last week at a Marion Motel.
A Cedar Rapids man faces 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a teen over the course of two years. He repeatedly forced himself on her, starting when she was 13-years-old. He pleaded last week before his trial was set to start.
Two people sustained non-life threatening injuries in the incident at a southeast side bar Tuesday night. Two people were detained following the incident, police said.
Kierre Williams, of Sioux City, changed his plea to guilty on murder, burglary and weapons charges during a routine pretrial hearing.
Trump filed the lawsuits over a 2024 presidential election poll that showed him trailing Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in Iowa by 4 percentage points.
The Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Rowley man on Friday after law enforcement officers say he intentionally hit his neighbor with his car.
No charges will be filed against four Cedar Rapids police officers after an officer-involved shooting in August, according to a report from the Linn County Attorney’s Office which ruled the shooting justified.
One or more intruders broke into an Iowa mink farm in western Iowa and released 2,000 of the furbearing animals in what a trade group called a “terrorist act” under federal law.
The law, which remains blocked, would make it a state crime for an individual to enter or be found in Iowa if that individual has previously been denied admission to or been deported from the United States.
A Johnson County district judge Friday ordered the state to stop removing historic material from the 168-year-old State Historical Society’s Iowa City research facility that it unexpectedly decided to close without warning or public discussion.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 22 years for sexually assaulting a child over the course of six years. The child was 6 years old when the abuse started and didn’t end until she was 12 years old.
A new legal challenge in Iowa argues that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and a meatpacking company coordinated behind the scenes to keep details of a “sweetheart deal” settlement from the public. The settlement between the state and meatpacker Agri Star Meat and Poultry LLC included an agreement by the company to pay a $50,000 fine for around 60 water pollution violations — an amount equivalent to one day of intentional Clean Water Act violations.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a bomb threat that was reported to the Alburnett School District Friday through a voicemail, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.
Senate File 75 requires Iowa counties home to one of Iowa’s three Regent universities to elect their county supervisors by districts, rather than at-large. All three counties — Johnson, Black Hawk and Story — currently have Democratic-leaning boards and elect supervisors countywide.
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