Articles Tagged: Domestic violence

Lawmakers also approved higher penalties for felony firearm possession

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to up to 25 years for assaulting his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend with a baseball bat and other charges.

A subcommittee of Iowa House lawmakers this week advanced Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ wide-ranging health care bill.

Iowa voters would have the potential to recall an elected official under a proposed amendment that advanced in the Iowa Senate Tuesday.

No matter which team you support, there’s a soup for you at the Domestic Violence Intervention Program’s 26th annual fundraiser.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested just after midnight Thursday after police responded to a report of a shooting at an apartment on Third Ave. SE.

The Domestic Violence Intervention Program in Iowa City is hosting a gift drive through Dec. 24 that will benefit domestic violence survivors who have used the program’s services this year.

On the heels of a state report on lives lost to domestic violence in 2022, victim advocates say a measure on the ballot Nov. 8 will make it harder to enact gun laws in Iowa to keep firearms out of the hands of abusers.

Domestic Violence Intervention Program, based out of Iowa City, has announced events for the month of October, which is national Domestic Violence Awareness month.

The Safer Communities Act — a bipartisan gun safety bill signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 25 — closed what was known as the “boyfriend loophole” on a national level, but gaps still in exist in Iowa that keep the loophole open in most cases, experts say.

Iowa has no extreme risk protection order law, wherein law enforcement, family members or others can seek a court order to temporarily prevent someone deemed a threat from buying or possessing firearms.

The man was arrested on charges that he threatened his wife with a gun during an argument and fired two shots inside their house with two children present.

An Iowa City man was booked into Johnson County Jail early Wednesday, accused of entering the Lone Tree home of a woman he had lived with and beating her with a metal pole.

Laura Palumbo was stabbed 16 times by her boyfriend in 1995, but she was determined not to be a victim. She is a survivor, who changed her career path to help others deal with trauma.

A Marion man was arrested early Wednesday after shots were fired during a domestic distrubance on 16th Avenue police responded to a domestic violence report and shots fired call at an apartment complex on 16th Ave, Cedar Rapids.