Articles Tagged: Fayette County

The former Elgin city clerk, originally charged with theft in the alleged misuse of $131,213 in taxpayer money, has been fined $430 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor offense.

A Cedar Rapids man was injured when the vehicle he was driving collided with a semi tractor trailer in Fayette County on Monday.

A 76-year-old man died Sunday when he was hit by a car while riding a bicycle in Fayette County, according to a crash report from the Iowa State Patrol.

An Iowa Supreme Court ruling will allow a lawsuit, filed the family of a Fayette County mother and daughter who drowned while tubing after going over a low-head dam near Clermont in June 2020, to go forward. The court overturned a district court dismissal of their petition in 2023.

The Iowa Supreme Court has removed from the bench a magistrate who questioned the veracity of an alleged sexual assault victim because he was a teenage male and asked whether a defendant in a separate case was a “wetback.”

A Fayette County-based Iowa magistrate who used a racial slur in court to refer to a defendant is now facing potential sanctions from the Iowa Supreme Court.

One person is dead after a crash in rural Fayette County Monday, according to a crash report from the Iowa State Patrol.

A Clermont man was arrested Friday on charges that he sexually abused multiple coworkers, including a minor, at a Casey’s in Clermont.

An 81-year-old man was found safe Tuesday by the Fayette County sheriff after he fell 60 feet down a ravine and called 911, according to a news release from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.

Law enforcement in Fayette County performed five search warrants over the weekend and arrested nine people on drug charges, according to a news release from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.

A Postville man has been charged in Fayette County with child endangerment resulting in death in relation to the death of his 4-month-old daughter in September 2022.

A Sumner woman was arrested May 9 and charged with two counts of child endangerment after Fayette County Sheriff’s Office deputies found her two children abandoned in “an unlivable home,” according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

A former Elgin city clerk was charged Wednesday for stealing over $131,000 from Oct. 1, 2017, through June 20, 2021, including giving herself an additional $104,000 in pay, according to a special investigation report released earlier this month.

Iowa’s Fayette County to get $10 million grant for traffic safety.

Fayette County man killed in farming accident near Clermont.