Resolution fails, 34-13, after heated debate on transgender support, requirements of law
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Resolution fails, 34-13, after heated debate on transgender support, requirements of law
A threat that was reported at Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids Friday morning was a false alarm, according to the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested Friday on a charges of second-degree murder and assault while displaying a dangerous weapon (domestic abuse).
The Sac County Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to use $25,000 of American Rescue Plan funds for a reward for information leading to David Schultz.
A Cedar Rapids man pleads to lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter in fatal shooting a Fort Dodge man in 2016. He faces 10 years in prison.
He is charged with kidnapping his 7-year-old non-custodial son, who authoritiss say is now safe,
The Satanic Temple has filed a damage estimate putting the cost to replace the statute at $3,000. The group is also requesting $3,299.55 in restitution for “travel and security expenses” for “food, lodging, van rental, communications equipment and bullet proof vests that were a necessity in completing the task of removing our holiday display at the state capitol.”
Board member Catherine McCrory prefaced her vote with a statement: “I want it to be clear that this Republican believes that there was an insurrection on Jan. 6. There’s no doubt in my mind that he manipulated, instigated, aided and abetted an insurrection on Jan. 6.”
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Saturday on charges that he shot at another man Friday at a residence in Cedar Rapids.
A man who police believe committed two homicides in Moline, Illinois, last week was found dead later that same day by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Coralville.
The Cedar County sheriff said genetic genealogy was used to identify parents of a dead baby left in a barn in 1996. Investigators want to determine if the baby was alive when it was abandoned. The father has cooperated with police, but the mother has not.
Iowa statehouse Republicans have proposed multiple changes to state law that would allow them greater access to the judicial process when a state law is challenged in court
Iowa investigators did not say if they’ve talked to them about the case.
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