But ruling notes 'serious concerns' about law’s vagueness
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But ruling notes 'serious concerns' about law’s vagueness
Abortion is legal in Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin at 20 weeks of pregnancy or later, while Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota have abortion bans similar to Iowa’s.
A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced Friday to life in prison on charges that he conspired with others to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa.
The legal path to Friday’s state Supreme Court ruling started in 2017.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on charges that he set his neighbor’s car on fire.
A North Liberty woman has been charged with second-degree murder after law enforcement found her ex-partner’s body in a crashed car in Minnesota over the weekend.
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It reverses the court's earlier order that had allowed an Idaho abortion ban to go into effect, even in medical emergencies.
A North Liberty woman was arrested near Rochester last weekend after a dead body was found in the vehicle she was driving.
By a 6-3 vote, the justices threw out lower-court rulings that favored Louisiana, Missouri and other parties in their claims that officials in the Democratic administration leaned on the social media platforms to unconstitutionally squelch conservative points of view.
Two Cedar Rapids men were arrested Tuesday on charges that they robbed a man at gunpoint Monday.
While abortion rights supporters raised concerns, abortion opponents praised the ruling and the new restrictions on abortion that have come in its wake.
Luke Truesdell, accused of beating to death four people with a metal pipe, will stand trial Sept. 3 in Linn County. An online fundraiser has also been started for one of the male victims.
The Iowa Supreme Court last week backed a jury’s $4.75 million award to a northeast Iowa dairy that for years suffered from stray electrical current in the ground from a nearby natural gas pipeline.
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