One man is behind bars after Cedar Rapids Police say he robbed a local convenience store Sunday morning. It happened at about 4 a.m. Sunday at the Kwik Shop at 2910 Center Point Rd NE in Cedar Rapids. Officers say 24-year-old Dennis Dawkins allegedly went into the store, showed a hand gun and demanded cash. [...]

UPDATE: Of the 10 police calls for service to the mobile home unit where a 28-year-old man died last week in a shootout with officers, seven came after he started living in the home earlier this year. A representative for the limited liability company that owns the unit at 238 Holiday Lodge Road in the [...]

City employees that have experienced fraud in their small towns are welcoming a law that would offer more protection against money being mishandled within their own offices. The law — passed unanimously by the Iowa Legislature during its 2012 session — would require small towns, with fewer than 2,000 residents and a budget of more [...]

The University of Iowa recommended that Taleb Hussein Yousef Salameh be denied a weapons permit in 2010, but the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office issued him a permit to purchase anyway in February of that year, public records show. On Sunday evening, Salameh, 28, was involved in a shootout with North Liberty police that left him [...]

UPDATE: A 28-year-old North Liberty man was shot and killed Sunday night in a gunfire exchange with police at his home in the Holiday Mobile Home Court. North Liberty police responded to a 911 call made at 5:51 p.m. Sunday regarding a domestic disturbance at 238 Holiday Lodge Road, according to a news release from [...]

  Johnson County and state authorities spent the night investigating at the scene of a shooting in a North Liberty mobile home park where two officers were reportedly injured. Preliminary reports were that two officers were shot after responding to a domestic incident before 6 p.m. Sunday, according to police reports and Jessica Lown, spokeswoman for the [...]

  CEDAR RAPIDS – Zyriah Schlitter was sentenced to 50 years in prison Wednesday in the death of his 17-month-old daughter Kamryn, who died of severe head injuries caused by a shaking or slamming in 2010. Zyriah Schlitter, 25, of Cedar Rapids, was found guilty by a jury of voluntary manslaughter and child endangerment resulting [...]

  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa City man accused of crashing his vehicle into a store in a Coralville mall and firing a handgun inside has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case. Officials say 23-year-old Joseph Moreno pleaded not guilty earlier this week to drunken driving, burglary, reckless use of a [...]

IOWA CITY — While being held in the Muscatine County Jail in 2011, Justin Marshall confessed to the 2009 killing of John Versypt in Iowa City, according to a fellow inmate. Earl Freeman, who was being held with Marshall in Muscatine on federal drug charges, told jurors Friday that Marshall came to him for legal [...]

  Authorities investigating the 2009 Iowa City shooting death of John Versypt had their man, and it wasn’t Justin Marshall, his defense attorney told jurors during opening statements in Marshall’s murder trial Wednesday. “Their investigation led to Charles Thompson,” said defense attorney Thomas Gaul. “But the state misfired, and that case ended in a mistrial.” [...]