A Lincoln, Iowa man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he attempted to groom someone who he believed was 15 years old to have sex with him.
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A Lincoln, Iowa man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he attempted to groom someone who he believed was 15 years old to have sex with him.
The second of two juveniles who were arrested Friday after a shooting in Cedar Rapids has been identified after being charged with a felony.
One of the two juveniles who were arrested Friday in relation to a shooting in Cedar Rapids has been identified after he was charged with multiple felonies and his case was moved to adult court.
An Iowa City man, accused of fatally assaulting the mother of his toddler, will claim self-defense, diminished capacity and intoxication at his Jan. 27 murder trial.
A judge sentenced a Cedar Rapids man to 30 years for sexually assaulting two children and molesting another child. One girl was under 12 when the abuse started and the others were 12 or 13 years old.
A prosecutor found an Iowa City woman was justified in using deadly force against her former live-in boyfriend after he forced is way into her home in June.
Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. It wasn’t immediately clear how quickly the debit cards that beneficiaries use to buy groceries could be reloaded.
The new amount is roughly half the $667 million that a jury had awarded to the pipeline company that brought the claims in connection with protests of an oil pipeline nearly a decade ago.
He was arrested over a meme that referenced Iowa’s 2024 school shooting in Perry
A missing 38-year-old Cedar Rapids man was found dead in or near the edge of the Cedar River on Wednesday night, police said. His family reported him missing on Saturday. Police said his death is under investigation but isn’t considered suspicious.
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Two Cedar Rapids men have been arrested in relation to a shooting that happened last week at a Marion Motel.
A Cedar Rapids man faces 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a teen over the course of two years. He repeatedly forced himself on her, starting when she was 13-years-old. He pleaded last week before his trial was set to start.
Two people sustained non-life threatening injuries in the incident at a southeast side bar Tuesday night. Two people were detained following the incident, police said.
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