The brother of one of the four people who were bludgeoned with a metal pipe in June 2024 testified Thursday in the trial for a Marion man, charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Matt Brown said he found a horrific scene as he walked into an outbuilding, finding his brother, barely alive, and three others dead.
A former state public health spokeswoman alleged she was fired in 2020 for fulfilling open records requests to journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A federal judge in Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration Thursday to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November.
More than a year after he was fired from his post as executive director to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, Guillermo Morales has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in the U.S. District Court.
A prosecutor, during his opening statement, said a Marion man ambushed and bludgeoned four people with a 3-foot metal pipe on June 5, 2024. He said surveillance video and evidence found at the scene will point to one attacker: Luke Truesdell. The defense said there’s no evidence of an ambush or that Truesdell did it.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he fired a gun at two men who were in a car in an alleyway next to his house in the 500 block of 6th Ave. SW.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Tuesday on charges that he sexually abused a 12-year-old child multiple times between May and November of 2024.
Witnesses say she drove the wrong way on Highway 30 on Tuesday night while passed out behind the wheel.
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.
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