Articles Tagged: Fayette County

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.

While local incentives can lure businesses to small towns, they are no guarantee alone that the town can be vital or attract visitors, according to a four-month IowaWatch investigation of towns with fewer than 5,000 people.