People who assault police officers, firefighters, health care providers and other protected professionals would receive heightened sentences under a bill Iowa lawmakers advanced Monday.
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People who assault police officers, firefighters, health care providers and other protected professionals would receive heightened sentences under a bill Iowa lawmakers advanced Monday.
A survivor said she still has nightmares about her former softball coach, James Anthony White, sexually assaulting her 16 years ago. The “resentment, anger and shame” she felt towards the former Clear Creek Amana softball coach caused her to give up her dreams of playing softball professionally. She still suffers from depression and anxiety.
Several thefts have been reported at an apartment building in northeast Cedar Rapids where a fire broke out last month, killing one person.
Kazius Childress, before his trial resumed Monday, decided plea to second-degree murder in the 2022 fatal shooting of Cordal Lewis. He admitted to shooting multiple times at Lewis, as Lewis was unarmed and running away from him. He faces up to 50 years and must serve a mandatory 35 years before being eligible for parole.
An assistant Linn County prosecutor has worked in the Juvenile Division for nearly 24 years and was promoted last month to be the head of the division head. She lives for the moments when the kids are successful in their rehabilitation and families can be reunited.
A police investigator said Kazius Childress identified another man as the one who shot Cordal Lewis in January 2022. The man is the person Childress is accused of shooting in a separate case.
Two people are facing drug charges after they were found in a vehicle with a man who had a gunshot wound Thursday, according to Cedar Rapids police.
A jury had convicted Preston Walls, 19, in last year’s fatal shooting at Starts Right Here.
An Iowa City woman was arrested Thursday on charges that she threatened a Mercy Hospital clinic over the phone.
Witness who saw Kazius Childress fatally shoot Cordal Lewis in 2022 admitted that he lied several times to police because he didn’t want to be involved, fearing for himself and family.
The city of Marion has earned $136,480 from traffic camera citations since cameras were installed at two intersections in the city last summer, but that money only comes from about 37 percent of the citations that have been issued. The rest had not yet been paid, as of Dec. 31.
Kazius Childress fired 11 times as 19-year-old Cordal Lewis tried to run away from him, a a prosecutor said during her opening Wednesday. Childress is on trial this week for first-degree murder and going armed with intent. Childress and others robbed Lewis and then Childress shot him in “cold blood.”
False threats were reported at Marion High School and other eastern Iowa schools Wednesday, on the same day that Iowa House lawmakers advanced a bill that would make it a felony to make a false report of a serious crime to law enforcement.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is asking for help finding a suspect in an armed bank robbery earlier this month.
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