A Marion woman, crying throughout her victim impact statement Friday in Linn County District Court, says she still waits for her 17-year-old son to come home even though she knows he was fatally shot May 10, 2023. Her only son, she said, should be graduating from high school this Sunday.
A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s Capitol pleaded guilty Friday to a reduced charge in return for prosecutors dropping a felony hate crime count.
The Iowa Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a Cedar Rapids doctor being sued for sexual exploitation and negligence by a former patient.
A Cedar Rapids man is charged with attempted sex trafficking a child under the age of 14. Court documents don’t provide details of the incident and it’s unknown whether the child was from Iowa or another state. If convicted, he faces 15 years and possibly up to life in federal prison.
A Cedar Rapids man pleads to hitting, kicking and beating a teen with an extension cord and bat. The teen had multiple injuries to his face, head and body, including a kidney. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
A Waterloo man was arrested this week on charges that he stole almost $16,000 from a North Liberty hotel while he worked as a general manager there.
An Iowa City man was arrested last week on charges that, while armed with a gun, he broke into a house and threatened to shoot someone inside.
A former employee at the Polk Alternative Education Center was arrested Friday on charges that she provided or indicated she would provide marijuana and vape products to minors.
Samantha Bevans showed no visible reaction when she heard the jury’s verdict, convicting her of first-degree murder for suffocating her stepmom, Jodie Bevans, in July 2022. She faces a life sentence without parole.
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.
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