He is charged with kidnapping his 7-year-old non-custodial son, who authoritiss say is now safe,
By Dolly Butz, Jared McNett and Caitlin Yamada - Sioux City Journal Crime & Courts Jan. 31, 2024 10:12 am734d ago
He is charged with kidnapping his 7-year-old non-custodial son, who authoritiss say is now safe,
Tom Barton State Government Jan. 31, 2024 10:49 am734d ago
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.”
Campaigns & Elections Jan. 30, 2024 1:29 pm735d ago
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.”
Crime & Courts Jan. 30, 2024 11:43 am735d ago
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Saturday on charges that he shot at another man Friday at a residence in Cedar Rapids.
Crime & Courts Jan. 30, 2024 11:28 am735d ago
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.
Crime & Courts Jan. 30, 2024 7:36 am735d ago
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.
State Government Jan. 30, 2024 7:46 am735d ago
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
Crime & Courts Jan. 29, 2024 1:35 pm736d ago
Iowa investigators did not say if they’ve talked to them about the case.
Crime & Courts Jan. 29, 2024 8:56 am736d ago
A woman who is suing two former FIJI members is asking the court to drop a separate lawsuit against a former UI student she accused of video recording the alleged sexual attack.
Crime & Courts Jan. 26, 2024 12:01 pm739d ago
Urbana man was sentenced this week to 30 years in federa prison for molesting and sexually exploiting a 4-year-old child. He recorded sexually explicit videos of the child and shared them with others online.
Crime & Courts Jan. 26, 2024 4:16 pm739d ago
The Cedar Rapids Police Department has identified a man who was killed Wednesday night in Cedar Rapids as Anthony Fitts, 29, of Cedar Rapids.
Crime & Courts Jan. 26, 2024 9:28 am739d ago
Three people have been arrested in relation to a shots-fired incident in Iowa City on Christmas.
Crime & Courts Jan. 25, 2024 1:13 pm740d ago
“Now, Ring hopefully will altogether be out of the business of platforming casual and warrantless police requests for footage to its users,” Matthew Guariglia, a senior policy analyst at the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Crime & Courts Jan. 25, 2024 10:45 am740d ago
Middle school students in Perry, Iowa, returned to classes Thursday for the first time since a 17-year-old opened fire in a cafeteria, killing two people and injuring six others.
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