The owner of a Johnson County puppy farm, which surrendered 131 dogs to Iowa City Animal Services last year, has been arrested and charged with 41 counts of animal neglect, according to a news release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.
A Cedar Rapids man who fatally shot a man who complained about noise was convicted of a lesser charge — second-degree murder — Wednesday following a five-day trial. Brannon Johnson, 22, faces up to 50 years in prison.
A Cedar Rapids man charged with fatally shooting a man last year on St. Patrick’s Day inside a Marion bar pleads to one lesser charge before trial began Tuesday.
“First, we won in Court. Now, we’re going to win at the ballot box,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said on social media.
An Iowa City man was arrested over the weekend on a sexual abuse charge after police say he sexually abused a 9-year-old child.
The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots. That power resides with Congress, the court wrote in an unsigned opinion.
Iowa County Attorneys Association has two priority bills and support an additional one which enhance protections for victims and witnesses. One increases penalties committing an assault if a no contact order is already in place and another also stiffens penalties for tampering with a witness.
Prosecutors in Story County are dismissing sports betting charges against ISU athletes because DCI investigators “exceeded“ the permitted use of geofencing software, according to Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission records obtained by defense attorneys.
A woman testified that her roommate was shot by her co-worker after he complained about them partying in the apartment as he was trying to get some sleep.
A group of parents of students with disabilities lacks legal standing to challenge a state law prohibiting mask mandates at public schools, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The Iowa Supreme Court pieced together so-called legislative immunity from multiple places in the Iowa Constitution, and ruled it extends to communications with third parties
A Cedar Rapids man, already serving 34 years for sexual assault, was convicted Friday for another offense, where he lured or physically took a woman up to a roof of a bar and sexually assaulted her. He faces another 10 years in prison.
Linn County prosecutor says investigation leading to three arrests in the kidnapping and fatal assault of 20-year-old Marion woman is the ‘swiftest’ during his tenure. He attributes it to the dedication and work ethic of the multiple law enforcement agencies investigating the slaying.
Family and friends gathered in Marion Thursday night for a candlelight vigil to commemorate the life of Melody Hoffman, a 20-year-old Marion woman who police say was kidnapped and murdered over the weekend.
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