Emily Andersen

Two Iowa City residents were charged Wednesday with misusing more than $500,000 that belonged to an elderly family member, for whom one of the individuals was caregiver.

Law enforcement from multiple Tama County agencies responded to a threatening call Wednesday morning in the city of Tama, which investigators believe was a swatting call related to the video game Fortnite.

The Cedar County Sheriff’s Office removed 32 neglected dogs from two properties near Clarence on Friday, according to a Facebook post from the sheriff’s office.

An Illinois woman was arrested Thursday in Linn County on charges that she stole more than $6,000 from two dependent adults for whom she was a caretaker.

A Tiffin man was arrested this week on charges that he stole and resold about $60,000 worth of construction equipment and medical equipment while working as a contractor at the University of Iowa Hospital North Liberty Campus.

An Oelwein woman was arrested Tuesday after she admitted to police that she started a fire that burned down three houses, including her own residence.

The body of a man reported missing two weeks ago in the Iowa City area was found over the weekend in the Iowa River, according to a news release from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.

A Salem, Wisconsin, man died Saturday after crashing into a deer in rural Allamakee County, according to a crash report from the Iowa State Patrol.

With about 1,391 new cancers diagnosed each year, Linn County has the 38th highest rate of new cancers among Iowa’s 99 counties, and the eighth highest rate among the 21 metro counties in the state.

Ron Novak’s body was found beaten, shot, and frozen in an unheated storeroom of his rural Walker home on Christmas Eve, 1983. On Wednesday, nearly 42 years later, the Linn County Sheriff’s Office announced it has arrested an Oregon man they believe was Novak’s killer — or, one of them.

No one was seriously injured in a crash that happened Tuesday night in Johnson County, but one person was transported to a hospital via helicopter as a precaution, according to a spokesperson from the Iowa State Patrol.

A Chicago man was sentenced in Johnson County court Tuesday to 10 years in prison on a charge of third-degree sexual assault.

A Nebraska man is dead after a single-vehicle crash Tuesday just north of Fairfax in Linn County.

An Iowa City man was arrested early Tuesday morning after police say he shot another man Monday night and escaped the scene on a stolen bike.

The Cedar Rapids community gathered Monday morning in the Veteran’s Memorial Building to begin their Memorial Day observance by honoring deceased veterans in a ceremony organized by The Metro Veterans Council of Cedar Rapids.