Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks said this year, in preparing for the next legislative session, his office has set priorities for changes they’d like to see. He hopes to work with legislators to address the state’s groping laws, invasion of privacy crimes, and rules about examination of public records.
An Iowa City woman, already charged with providing sex acts to massage parlor clients, is now charged with tampering with a witness. She is accused of trying to influence a victim and his wife not to testify against her.
The Iowa chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union released a report Wednesday outlining the ways that automatic license plate reader cameras, or ALPRs, are being used across Iowa, and urging state legislators to implement regulations regarding their use.
A woman said a Cedar Rapids man, who should have been a “role model and protector” was instead, the person who repeatedly sexually abused her over a two year period when she was 14 and 15 years old. He was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison on Tuesday.
Eight months after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement abruptly terminated the status of four University of Iowa international students — and revoked visas for three of them without explanation — those students have settled the lawsuit they filed against the Department of Homeland Security.
The State of Iowa is contesting an injunction issued in a lawsuit brought by the former operator of the state-owned Honey Creek Resort in southern Iowa.
A Cedar Rapids woman, who was intoxicated, faces up to 16 years in prison for unintentionally causing the death of a motorcyclist in a head-on crash on Cottage Grove Avenue in October 2023. She pleaded to a lesser charge.
Iowa's auditor can be represented by his office's attorneys in a lawsuit over access to records concerning Davenport's nearly $2 million in settlements with three former employees, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in a decision released Friday.
A judge on Friday convicted an Iowa City man of robbing and trying to kill a woman on the University of Iowa campus in April of 2022. Ali Younes faces up to 60 years in prison.
A former IT director received probation and a deferred judgment Thursday for enticing who he believed was a girl under 16 and sending her pornographic photos, video and “hundreds” of messages in a pursuit to have sex with her.
The U.S. Marshals Service in Virginia arrested a man Wednesday wanted on several charges of sexual abuse in Linn County.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he shot a 13-year-old boy in January, in retaliation for a different shooting.
He’s accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — an Iowa native and University of Iowa graduate — on a New York City street one year ago.
She was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in jail and ordered to report to the Sonoma County Jail on Dec. 10.
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