A state request for proposals sheds lights on the reasons why Iowa is considering privatizing its prison health care services, potentially entering an arena that has faced issues in other states, according to advocates.
The settlement, approved last week by the Cedar Rapids City Council, is meant to help the city “avoid the further cost of litigation” without admitting legal liability.
Two men were arrested Sunday night after a stabbing in Cedar Rapids that left three people injured, according to a press release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.
A Linn County jury deliberated three hours before finding a Traer woman guilty of first-degree murder. The prosecution said she planned with her “lover“ — a much younger Shellsburg man — to kill her husband and start a new life with his $500,000 life insurance policy. She was the sole beneficiary.
Former Washington Mayor Jaron Rosien was handed a deferred judgment with two years of probation, as well as 50 hours of community service, a handful of fines, and a place on the state’s sexual offender registry at a sentencing hearing in Washington Friday morning.
Matthew Schleier will claim insanity at trial, and the prosecution will have an independent psychological evaluation performed in August and needs more time to prepare.
Karina Cooper, accused of fatally shooting her husband in 2021, testified the majority of her affair with Huston Danker was “online” and she didn’t think he was serious about killing her husband. After the murder, she said she didn’t tell police becuase she was scared of Danker.
The Iowa County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday issued a news release with more details of the June 20 shooting along Interstate 80.
Police found drugs, money and a firearm in his car during a traffic stop in 2024.
Ali Younes, accused of robbing and assaulting a woman in 2022 on the University of Iowa campus, initially told police a man he couldn’t identify assaulted the woman. He only came upon the woman after she was unconscious, he said, and stole her diamond earrings.
Authorities say the 36-year-old displayed a handgun; a Dubuque County sheriff's sergeant was injured and released from hospital
An Iowa City woman who was assaulted and robbed on the UI campus in 2022, testified during the first day of her attacker’s bench trial in Johnson County. She sensed someone was following her and when he started strangling her, she feared for her life.
A man arrested in rural Linn County Monday on a charge of reckless use of a firearm after police say he shot a boy in the head with birdshot is now also facing a charge of felon in possession of a firearm.
A Cedar Rapids man was booked into the Johnson County Jail Monday night, about two years after he was charged with attempted murder. He had been in custody in the Cook County Jail in Illinois on unrelated charges.
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