The big brother of 16-year-old Michael McCune, who was targeted by four juveniles and fatally shot in 2023, said during a sentencing hearing Monday it’s not fair that he can only look at a gravestone, instead of seeing his brother’s smile that “lit up a room.”
A Cedar Rapids woman was arrested Sunday after police say she shot several times at a man who she had been living with while involved in an intimate relationship.
State and tribal law enforcement officers will be able to cross jurisdictional boundaries while pursuing fleeing suspects under a new legal agreement between the Iowa Attorney General’s Office and the Meskwaki Nation.
A Linn County jury deliberated over two hours before convicting an 18-year-old of sexually abusing three children over the course of two years. The three girls, who are sisters, testified he threatened to kill them and another of their siblings if they disclosed the abuse.
A Marion man was arrested Friday on charges that he sexually abused a 12-year-old child in the parking lot of Westfield Elementary School in Robins in July.
A former Decorah man was convicted by a jury this week in the death of a 15-year-old girl, who was the daughter of his girlfriend. The girl went missing March 30, 2017 and was never seen again. Investigators determined she was dead but the body has never been found.
The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld the 50-year second-degree murder sentence of Kazius Childress, who fatally shot Kavon Johnson, 22, of Cedar Rapids, in January 2022.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has granted 55 pardons since taking office, more than double her predecessor and mentor, former Gov. Terry Branstad; commuted sentences have been exceptionally rare under both governors.
A Dubuque teen said her being held against her will and being repeatedly sexually assaulted by various men will “leave my memory and haunt me day and night.” Her statement was read during her abuser’s sentencing. Jarod Anderson was sentenced to life in prison for human trafficking a minor in 2024.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upheld a district court ruling and found the lifetime restriction against forcible felons to possess guns, subject to a governor’s pardon, didn’t violate the Constitution and is consistent with national firearms regulations.
A Cedar Rapids man was convicted Tuesday for sexually abusing a teen 19 years ago. Sex abuse cases have no statute of limitations in Iowa. The woman, as a 30-year-old, reported the repeated abuse to police in 2022.
One week into the new academic year, the University of Iowa on Monday issued its first crime alert about a reported sexual assault on campus.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested this weekend on charges that he robbed a Hiawatha gas station at gunpoint in June 2024.
Cedar Rapids mother sentenced to 10 years in prison for injecting her toddler with unneeded insulin, making him sick. Doctors believed it was caused by medical child abuse, formerly known as Munchhausen syndrome by proxy.
© 2025 The Gazette | All Rights Reserved.
Daily Newsletters