An Iowa City man was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded semi-automatic handgun that toddler discharges, shooting himself in the left eye. The child died later that day on July 3, 2022.
UI Police Detective Ian Mallory received an award Monday for his work to investigate an identity theft scheme that started in 1988. He considered both men involved as credible sources until DNA proved otherwise.
Judge denied moving trial for Andrew Shaw out of Linn County. Shaw is accused of hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018.
The Cedar Rapids Animal Care and Control is investigating the suspicious death of three dogs last week, according to a news release from the department.
Cedar Rapids police officers were dispatched to a hospital where they found the woman severely beaten and unrecognizable, a complaint shows.
Johnson County Sheriff Brad Kunkel says the electronic monitoring program for pretrial defendants and inmates sentenced to jail time has reduced jail numbers and the program is paying for itself. The inmates sentenced to jail but allowed to be out of custody with a GPS monitor are charged for the monitoring system. The pretrial defendants aren’t charged for the service.
Speeding convictions in Iowa rose in 2023, but still were down about 17 percent from a decade ago -- a decline that some law enforcement officials believe isn’t due to drivers speeding any less, but rather reduced enforcement as agencies cope with staff shortages and increased workloads.
Pamela Lovette, the mother of Cordal Lewis, told his killer she hopes he “burns in hell” for fatally shooting him Jan. 27, 2022 in southeast Cedar Rapids.
An Oklahoma woman faces two felony charges and two misdemeanors after a deputy reported finding a black suitcase and black garbage bag containing vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department responded to a swatting call Friday morning at Harding Middle School.
An Iowa City man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he stole someone’s banking information and used it to pay more than $50,000 in bills and other purchases during a three-month period.
A Cedar Rapids woman is scheduled to plea on charges that she stole more than $10,000 from the Madison Elementary School Parent Teacher Association while she was the treasurer of the organization.
All the evidence has been presented in the Curtis Padgett murder trial, but none of the testimony explained the break that opened up the 16-year-old cold case.
A 13-year-old girl was found dead in Eldora Sunday after police responded to a report that a person had been shot, according to a news release from the Iowa Department of Public Safety.
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