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Police were called to the 100 block of S. Dubuque Street — just south of the Pedestrian Mall — at 12:56 a.m. Saturday for a report of shots fired.

Iowa U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling on the Secret Service and other federal agencies to release information about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann, who will give the speech formally nominating Donald Trump to be elected president, emphasized lowering the political temperature and heated rhetoric in the presidential race.

One person was injured in a shooting Monday night in Cedar Rapids, according to a news release from the Cedar Rapids Police Department.

Pierra Baugh, 34, of Cedar Rapids, pleads to lesser charges in the robbery and murder of Cordal Lewis, 19, in January 2022. She admitted to the planning and carrying out the robbery of Lewis with Kazius Childress, who fataly shot Lewis and was convicted in January.

A mother, in her victim impact statement, said losing her son to gun violence is a “‘pain no parent should have to endure.” Cameron Barnes was fatally shot on St. Patrick’s Day last year by Duval Walker Jr. in a Marion bar.

A Marion woman, crying throughout her victim impact statement Friday in Linn County District Court, says she still waits for her 17-year-old son to come home even though she knows he was fatally shot May 10, 2023. Her only son, she said, should be graduating from high school this Sunday.

An Iowa City man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting and paralyzing a victim last year in downtown Iowa City. He must serve five years before being eligible for parole.

An Iowa City man was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded semi-automatic handgun that toddler discharges, shooting himself in the left eye. The child died later that day on July 3, 2022.

A 13-year-old girl was found dead in Eldora Sunday after police responded to a report that a person had been shot, according to a news release from the Iowa Department of Public Safety.

At least one person was killed Wednesday in a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, police say.

The legislation also would require Iowa’s 11 largest school districts — among them Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Council Bluffs, Iowa City, and Sioux City — to have at least one private security guard or school resource officer in each district high school.

A 17-year-old was sentenced to 17 years in prison for shooting and injuring another man, who didn’t know him, in 2022. Police identified the teen through witnesses and surveillance video.

Two people are facing drug charges after they were found in a vehicle with a man who had a gunshot wound Thursday, according to Cedar Rapids police.