Duval Walker was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder and going armed with intent on March 13, 2024 in Linn County District Court in connection with the March 17, 2023 shooting death of Cameron Barnes at Cocktails & Company in Marion. Sentencing is scheduled for April 26.
The city of University Heights is working to install speed enforcement cameras on Melrose Avenue and Koser Avenue, the two main east/west thoroughfares through the city, which is surrounded by Iowa City.
University of Iowa police testified a Coralville transgender activist encouraged others to block traffic last fall during a campus protest. The protesters wouldn’t move to allow them to clear one lane of traffic for drivers to leave an event at the Iowa Memorial Union.
Duval Walker’s former girlfriend and mother of four of his kids testified the man Walker is accused of killing harassed her and brandished a gun during an incident in 2022. Closing arguments in the first-degree murder trial will be Tuesday afternoon.
Marion Sgt. Nicole Hotz breaks down surveillance video of fist fight that turns into fatal shooting last St. Patrick’s Day at Marion bar.
A Cedar Rapids woman, who was nabbed by an undercover officer on the internet, was sentenced to 40 years for child porn.
Testimony started Thursday for a Cedar Rapids man accused of fatally shooting another man last St. Patrick’s Day at a Marion bar. Cameron Barnes died from a single gunshot wound to the back of his neck.
The owner of a Johnson County puppy farm, which surrendered 131 dogs to Iowa City Animal Services last year, has been arrested and charged with 41 counts of animal neglect, according to a news release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.
A Cedar Rapids man who fatally shot a man who complained about noise was convicted of a lesser charge — second-degree murder — Wednesday following a five-day trial. Brannon Johnson, 22, faces up to 50 years in prison.
A Cedar Rapids man charged with fatally shooting a man last year on St. Patrick’s Day inside a Marion bar pleads to one lesser charge before trial began Tuesday.
“First, we won in Court. Now, we’re going to win at the ballot box,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird said on social media.
An Iowa City man was arrested over the weekend on a sexual abuse charge after police say he sexually abused a 9-year-old child.
The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots. That power resides with Congress, the court wrote in an unsigned opinion.
Iowa County Attorneys Association has two priority bills and support an additional one which enhance protections for victims and witnesses. One increases penalties committing an assault if a no contact order is already in place and another also stiffens penalties for tampering with a witness.
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