An off-duty Johnson County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Saturday on a charge of operating while under the influence after another deputy pulled him over.
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An off-duty Johnson County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Saturday on a charge of operating while under the influence after another deputy pulled him over.
Andrew Shaw faces up to 50 years in prison for second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley on Dec. 14, 2018. The jury, in their verdict of the lesser charge of first-degree murder, found he set in motion the assault of Bagley, knowing it could lead to murder.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating a stabbing that happened Sunday evening, according to a press release from the department.
Three people have been charged in relation to a shots-fired incident that happened Saturday afternoon in Cedar Rapids.
A 17-year-old and another juvenile were the first arrests in connection with a targeted shooting that happened just before 3 a.m. in Iowa City. Additional arrests are anticipated, police said.
The Iowa Attorney General’s Office issued a report Friday concluding that a fatal officer-involved shooting in Tama County in July, in which a man told police to shoot him while threatening them with an airsoft gun that looked real, was justified.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking to dismiss a complaint four University of Iowa international students filed in April — asserting to have addressed all the students’ concerns, thus making their lawsuit “moot.”
The 18-year-old is heading into her freshman year at Iowa State University, where she’ll be a member of the Cyclones gymnastics team. She spoke with the AP on Wednesday, less than a week after Sean Gardner was arrested on a child sexual exploitation charge.
A Columbus Junction man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a man who was shot before his body was dragged down a gravel road behind a van.
The victims of an Iowa City man charged with intentionally driving his car into five people after a dispute Friday were staying in a homeless encampment near the Iowa City Shelter House, according to a statement released Monday by the nonprofit.
Lawyers for the family of an Iowa woman killed by her estranged husband say that had it not been for Bellevue police officers’ “deliberate refusal to enforce the law,” the woman would still be alive.
He distributed the ice meth in Marion and Cedar Rapids throughout 2023.
The U.S. gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.
Johnny Blahnik Church, formerly known as Drew Blahnik, who was convicted for killing Chris Bagley in 2018, told a grand jury in 2019 that Andrew Shaw wasn’t involved in Bagley’s killing in any way.
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