The use of cameras by law enforcement to automatically scan license plates and record vehicle information in an online database was limited in Eastern Iowa just a few years ago. But in recent years, the cameras have become a hot button issue on city council agendas across Linn and Johnson counties.
Here’s why the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office continued its pretrial GPS monitoring program after initial pandemic funds for the pilot program ended in 2024.
The new guidance adheres to a 2024 state law that allows county attorneys to carry guns in courtrooms, and creates a framework for allowing judges to carry.
A two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Des Moines charges Ian Roberts with one count of making a false statement for employment and one count of being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm.
A Marion man was arrested Thursday on a charge of first-degree election misconduct, after police say he wrote down a Cedar Rapids address that he hadn’t lived at for six years when he voted in the 2024 elections.
A University of Northern Iowa professor is suing the university, alleging administrators waged a coordinated campaign to falsely “frame” her for disability discrimination while subjecting her to gender-based discrimination.
A U.S. attorney is asking a federal court to pause proceedings in a lawsuit four University of Iowa international students filed against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — in part — because of the government shutdown and frozen funds.
A judge ordered Hawkeye Waste to stop operating in Johnson County because it doesn’t have workers’ comp insurance. The county had renewed its motion for a temporary injunction after discovering the company had a lapse in insurance beginning in September.
Two people are facing charges of neglect in relation to the death of a 20-month-old child last year in Vinton, according to a press release from the Vinton Police Department.
A former UI employee, who pocketed nearly $1 million by diverting production and design jobs for the university’s machine shop to his own business, pleaded to two charges and faces up to 10 years in prison. He will also pay over $170,000 to UI in restitution.
Baynon Berry, of Marion, is sentenced up to 50 years in prison for his role in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Michael McCune in Cedar Rapids on Feb. 18, 2023. The Marion teen was the last of the four sentenced on Monday. The judge imposed no mandatory minimum to serve before being eligible for parole.
The Cedar Rapids Police Department is investigating the death of a 22-year-old man whose body was found at an industrial site in southwest Cedar Rapids Friday, according to a press release from the police department.
A Cedar Rapids man was arrested Friday on charges that he broke into the site of a future senior living community in Cedar Rapids and stole a golf simulator worth more than $10,000, and about $7,000 worth of tools.
An Oxford, Iowa man has been charged with kidnapping after police say he threatened an Iowa City woman, who had a no contact order against him related to previous charges of assault and sexual abuse, with a knife and forced her to get in her car drive him toward Cedar Rapids on Thursday.
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