A woman was arrested Friday in Linn County on charges that she stole $18,100 from two different women whose identities she stole.
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A woman was arrested Friday in Linn County on charges that she stole $18,100 from two different women whose identities she stole.
Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that a former Iowa City police officer, who resigned in lieu of termination for misconduct, can appeal a Civil Service Commission ruling to Johnson County District Court. The commission had denied the officer’s petition to withdraw his resignation.
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday morning on his way to the PGA Championship, with stunning images showing him handcuffed as he was taken to jail for not following police orders during a pedestrian fatality investigation.
Samantha Bevans, accused of suffocating her stepmom in 2022, took the stand Thursday in her defense and denied taking part in the killing of Jodie Bevans, 58, of Palo. She blamed the slaying on her boyfriend, who was convicted of first-degree murder last year. But a rebuttal witness said Bevans demonstrated how she put the pillow over her stepmother’s face and used her foot to apply pressure.
A former assistant Linn-Mar track coach pleaded Thursday to sexually abusing a 17-year-old male student and a 15-year-old male student in 2021. He faces up to 14 years in prison.
Kathleen Galloway-Menke was assaulted May 8 at the center, Ellipsis Iowa. Her family’s attorney, Trever Hook, said the 50-year-old mother of two daughters suffered brain damage and died Tuesday after life support was removed.
An Iowa City man was charged this week with sexually abusing multiple children between 2021 and 2023.
The teen daughter of Samantha Bevans, who is accused of suffocating her stepmother with a pillow in 2022, testified Wednesday that Samantha called her the day of the killing to find out if the stepmother was with the family camping or if she’d stayed home.
A woman who worked at an Iowa center that provides services for troubled youths has died, days after she was assaulted by a juvenile at the facility, officials said.
The stepdaughter of a woman who was found suffocated in her bed in 2022 told investigators her boyfriend did it and she couldn’t stop him. He was convicted last year.
Civil rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on Monday accusing an Iowa sheriff’s department of mishandling the collection of jail fees, some of which helped fund recreational expenses like laser tag and a cotton candy machine at a shooting range.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on charges that he sexually abused a child repeatedly while the child was between the ages of 6 and 12.
A Cedar Rapids man sentenced Friday to up to 50 years in prison for fatally shooting Jorge Maldonaldo-Vazquez on Feb. 15, 2023, in Cedar Rapids. Maldonaldo-Vazquez was trying to sleep and, after telling his roommate and her friend to be quiet, the friend -- Brannon Johnson, 22, of Cedar Rapids -- fatally shot him.
The Iowa Department of Corrections issued a nationwide warrant for the arrest of Pieper Lewis this month after learning she had been removed from a treatment center in Atlanta and then failed to show up to probation meetings.
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