Former members of the Benton County Board of Health are suing the supervisors and county over their termination in October. The petition contends the firings are connected to disputes over county-based medical system restructuring.
A convicted drug trafficker accused of hiring two others to kill Chris Bagley in 2018 pleaded not guilty this week. His trial is set for Jan. 16 in Linn County District Court.
He also was charged in domestic abuse of girlfriend
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday on a warrant after police say he sexually assaulted a woman in July.
A John Doe homicide victim killed in California in 1974 was identified last month through genetic geneaology as being a former Cedar Rapids man. Authorities believe he may be a possible victim of a notarious California serial killer who is on death row.
A former Atkins city clerk has been criminally charged after an audit earlier this year found she had been misusing city funds.
A former employee of University of Iowa Community HomeCare has paired up with a former patient to sue the entity on behalf of themselves and 67,000-plus others over a data breach in March they argue could have been prevented, was reported too late, and unjustly enriched the university while causing years of stress, risk, and potential further victimization in the form of fraud and identity theft.
Lawyers representing the students say the new state law that prohibits certain LGBTQ topics in K-12 schools violates students’ First Amendment right to free speech
The 6th Judicial District Court is taking applications for an upcoming vacancy on the bench. Judge Fae Hoover is retiring at the end of December. Applications are due Dec. 15.
A Cedar Rapids man accused of trying to kill his wife by stabbing her multiple times in 2021 wants to keep his confession out of trial. His lawyers argue he had an “existing” mental condition and was in a psychotic state. Prosecution argues he understood all the questions and led the discussion during the interrogation.
A judge sentenced a Cedar Rapids man to 25 years for sexually abusing a child for over a year. The girl, now 8, told a forensic interviewer about the incidents and then, the abuser confessed to police that he sexually abused her for over a year.
The biggest “enemy” of a cold case is time. It it affects memories, evidence and paper reports. But time also can bring breakthroughs by way of new technology that wasn’t available when someone was killed and murders went unsolved. In a continuing series, The Gazette will revisit some of those unsolved cases in Cedar Rapids and Linn County. Investigators will share their insights and new information gathered over the years, and victims’ families will share memories of their loved ones.
A newly filed lawsuit claims an insurance company engineered a record-setting medical malpractice judgment in Iowa to spur state legislators into passing tort-reform legislation.
The wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor was convicted Tuesday of a scheme to stuff the ballot box in her husband’s unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020.
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