UPDATE: A pipe bomb discovered in a Cedar Falls neighborhood was detonated by a bomb squad without incident Tuesday afternoon. A robot from the Waterloo Police Department bomb squad picked up the bomb from a yard in the 2300 block of Royal Drive Tuesday afternoon and transported it across the street to another yard where [...]

The murder trials for Isaiah Sweet and Brandon Ahlers, accused of killing Janet and Richard Sweet last year in Manchester, have been reset in Delaware County District Court. Isaiah Sweet, 18, of Manchester, charged with two counts of first-degree murder, will stand trial Oct. 16. He is accused of shooting and killing his grandparents and [...]

A former Meskwaki police chief pleaded guilty last month to transferring firearms to another without a permit and received a deferred judgment. Christopher Knouse, 46, made an Alford plea to non-felonious misconduct in office March 28 in Tama County District Court. He was given a deferred judgment and placed on self-supervised probation for one year. [...]

Iowa’s governor has called a rare public hearing Wednesday to gather input on whether he should free an inmate widely credited with turning his life around while serving 38 years in prison for a 1974 murder. Rasberry Williams, 66, is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder after shooting a neighbor over a $30 gambling [...]

A recent string of meth related incidents in Washington, Iowa has some residents concerned the community is acquiring a negative reputation. “One of the nicknames going around Washington is, it’s not Washington anymore, it’s ‘methington,’” said Nels Miller, a former resident at the Goncho apartment building near downtown. Miller was one of two dozen people [...]

Prison officials say a staffer smuggled contraband into the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, prompting a lockdown. Fred Scaletta, executive officer for the Iowa Department of Corrections, says in a statement Thursday that the security breach is under investigation and the staffer is on administrative leave. The penitentiary’s maximum security unit has been on [...]

Sentencing has been scheduled for next month for a former accounting clerk for the city of Muscatine. Court records show Diane Fry made a deal with prosecutors and in February pleaded guilty to theft. Prosecutors dropped counts of felony misconduct in office in return for her plea. An audit report issued Monday by the office [...]

A former Olin High School resource teacher and volleyball coach convicted of sexual exploitation and other charges in 2011 was resentenced earlier this week to five years probation after being granted an appeal. Jeremy Chamberlin, 34, was convicted by a Jones County jury in April 2011 of sexual exploitation by a school employee, a felony, [...]

UPDATE: A father and son were killed after falling into a grain bin in northeast Iowa, authorities said in identifying them Friday. Waverly Fire Chief Dennis Happel identified the two as Rick and Adam Schneider. The men were pulled unconscious from the bin at Schneider’s Milling around 2:15 p.m. on Thursday and taken to Waverly [...]

A Lowden man could faces several charges after officials said the van he was driving plowed into around 10 vehicles, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage, in an elementary school parking lot in Tipton Tuesday night. Police said Leam Tank, 21, was driving west on Sixth Street in Tipton around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when he [...]