Emily Andersen

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a bomb threat that was reported to the Alburnett School District Friday through a voicemail, according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Thursday on charges that he stole more than $10,000 from his grandmother, for whom he was a caretaker and had financial power of attorney.

An Iowa City man was arrested Thursday on a charge of second-degree sexual abuse.

A North Liberty man was sentenced last week to five years in prison after pleading guilty to serious injury by vehicle in relation to a crash last November that seriously injured a pedestrian, according to a news release from the Johnson County Attorney’s Office.

A former mayor and a former clerk of Delhi, Iowa have both been charged with theft after a Delaware County Sheriff’s Office investigation, prompted by a report released last year by the Iowa State Auditor’s Office.

Two people have been arrested in relation to a shots fired call that Iowa City Police responded to in September.

A federal courtroom in Davenport overflowed Monday afternoon as community members gathered to show support of Jorge Gonzalez Ochoa, a Colombian immigrant who was publicly arrested last month by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Iowa City.

A woman was taken to the hospital Sunday with serious injuries after a shooting in a Marion motel, according to a news release from the Marion Police Department.

The use of cameras by law enforcement to automatically scan license plates and record vehicle information in an online database was limited in Eastern Iowa just a few years ago. But in recent years, the cameras have become a hot button issue on city council agendas across Linn and Johnson counties.

A Marion man was arrested Thursday on a charge of first-degree election misconduct, after police say he wrote down a Cedar Rapids address that he hadn’t lived at for six years when he voted in the 2024 elections.

Two people are facing charges of neglect in relation to the death of a 20-month-old child last year in Vinton, according to a press release from the Vinton Police Department.

A motorcyclist was sent to the hospital Sunday with serious injuries, including a brain bleed, after a crash in southeast Cedar Rapids, according to the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating the death of a 22-year-old man whose body was found at an industrial site in southwest Cedar Rapids Friday, according to a press release from the police department.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on charges that he broke into the site of a future senior living community in Cedar Rapids and stole a golf simulator worth more than $10,000, and about $7,000 worth of tools.

One person has died after they fell from a cell tower in Marion Friday afternoon, according to a press release from the Marion Fire Department.