A Cedar Rapids man who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol was resentenced this week to time served -- about 11 months in federal prison. He was originally sentenced to 30 months before an appeals court tossed out an obstruction charge.
Last week was “funnel week” at the Iowa Statehouse — the deadline for legislation to pass out of committee in …
On the penultimate weekend before the first-in-the-nation Iowa Republican caucuses, former President Donald Trump and his rivals — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, and Ohio biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy — campaigned across the state with the hopes of forging an 11th-hour surge in support.
Leo Christopher Kelly, 37, of Cedar Rapids, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to 30 months in prison on seven offenses, including obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony, and six misdemeanors.
A Cedar Rapids man was convicted by a Washington D.C. jury Tuesday on seven charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. He faces at least one felony which carries up to 20 years in prison.
An Iowa woman who entered the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was sentenced Monday to five months in prison.
The Gazette asked all six members of Iowa’s congressional delegation, plus U.S. Rep-elect Zach Nunn, for their reaction to the committee’s recommendations as well as the committee’s assessment that former President Trump is not fit to serve in public office again.
DES MOINES (AP) — A federal judge in Washington has found an Iowa man guilty of 12 charges including assaulting and resisting officers after he and
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge sentenced a Capitol rioter to seven years in prison Tuesday, calling the Iowa man a “one-man wrecking ball" who helped in a sustained assault on a police officer.
The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that's accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday.
A Sioux City man who promised to behead President Joe Biden and predicted “blood in the streets” has pleaded guilty to a single charge and faces up to six months in prison for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
“I did not seek this fight, brought to this Capitol one year from today. But I will not shrink from it either. I will stand in this breach, I will defend this nation. I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of this democracy.”
An Iowa man and his Minnesota son pleaded guilty to a charge of civil disorder in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, admitting that the entered the building through a broken window and pushed through a police line once inside.
A Cedar Rapids man pleads not guilty to additional charges in the U.S. Capitol attack Jan. 6. Additional charges include entering and remaining in restrictive areas and rooms, disordering and disruptive conduct, and “parading or picketing” in the building.
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has voted to recommend contempt charges against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as lawmakers revealed a series of frantic texts he received as the attack was underway.
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