Emily Andersen

The North Liberty Police Department Officers Union and Sergeants Union released a letter Friday expressing a vote of no confidence in North Liberty Police Chief Diane Venenga.

The city of Manchester is examining its options after a jury last week ordered the city to pay $4.25 million to the family of a man killed in a crash with police officer in 2020.

A Coralville man who drowned in 2022 while rescuing his friend’s 8-year-old son from the Iowa River has posthumously been awarded a Carnegie Medal for Heroism by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.

She has been charged with stealing nearly $30,000 from a youth softball association while she worked as the association’s treasurer.

An Iowa City man has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges that he brought a gun onto school grounds and threatened staff members at Grant Wood Elementary School in November, according to the Johnson County Attorney’s Office.

A Coralville man who was arrested in April 2022 on charges that he sexually abused a 4-year-old child was found not guilty by a jury Monday.

The family of a woman who died in the Linn County Jail two years ago has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Linn County, the Linn County sheriff and jail staff members.

A fire that killed a 78-year-old man Tuesday in Cedar Rapids was started by accident, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

The Iowa Ombudsman’s Office released a report Thursday saying county jails across the state should stop collecting money for medical expenses from inmates who haven’t been convicted of a crime.

A 12-year-old who had been missing for a couple weeks in Iowa City has been found, according to a Wednesday news release from the Iowa City Police Department.

One person has died after being removed from a burning house in southwest Cedar Rapids.

Two people were injured Tuesday morning in a fire in southwest Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Fire Department.

The Iowa City Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating 12-year-old Jaylin Brown, who has been missing for more than two weeks.

Access to books and other publications is “crucial” for giving incarcerated people a chance at future success, library advocates say. But rules and policies that are in place to keep prisons secure can restrict the materials available to prisoners, either by controlling which content is allowed, or how books must enter facilities.

The Iowa City Police Department is investigating a stabbing that happened over the weekend and has asked for the public’s help to identify a possible witness.