Officials have released the names of three Cedar Rapids police officers who shot and killed a man who was armed and making threats on April 6.
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Officials have released the names of three Cedar Rapids police officers who shot and killed a man who was armed and making threats on April 6.
The federal lawsuit accuses city police officers of “showing favoritism toward Christopher Prichard,” and that his relationship with the police in the Eastern Iowa community “enabled and fostered his ability to murder his estranged spouse, Angela Marie Prichard.”
The first year of Johnson County Civil Mental Health Court has been “challenging but rewarding,“ as officials identified some gaps for services that participants needed. The court had 12 participants in the first year.
Justice said recusal ‘based upon a personal relationship’ that happened ‘more than a decade ago.’
Crime scene investigators testified Friday about oven mitts soaked in blood and the murder weapon found in Cedar Rapisd apartment of Dennis First, who was fatally stabbed in 2007. The ex-girlfriend of Curtis Padgett, on trial in the killing, also testified Friday that he denied being the killer but had a suicidal incident and held a knife to his neck in 2010.
Arguments focus on which legal standard to apply
Testimony started Thursday in a 2007 cold case of a Cedar Rapids man severely beaten and stabbed to death at his Hawthorne Hills apartment. His former neighbor is on trial for the crime.
A Wisconsin man who officials say killed himself Wednesday after an armed standoff with law enforcement in Albion, Wis., is a person of interest in the Wednesday death of a woman in Dubuque County, Iowa.
The wife of an Anamosa correctional officer who was killed by two inmates in 2021 filed a lawsuit against prison officials and employees Tuesday in Jones County. The lawsuit asserts staffing shortages, equipment failures and lack of safety protocols and procedures led to the death of her husband and Lorena Schulte, a registered nurse.
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state can enforce its long-dormant law criminalizing all abortions except when a mother’s life is at stake.
Officials at the Des Moines Art Center say the work, completed in 1996, has deteriorated beyond repair and is hazardous to park visitors.
The Iowa City Police Department responded to a shots fired call early Tuesday morning in the area of Walden Road and Sylvan Glen Court, according to a news release from the department.
Cedar Rapids man, previously convicted for sexual assault in 2021, was sentenced to another 10 years for a 2017 sex assault in Iowa City. He faces two more sex assault trials in June and July.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety has released the name of the man killed in an officer-involved shooting in Saturday night in northeast Cedar Rapids.
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