A North Liberty man was sentenced last week to five years in prison after pleading guilty to serious injury by vehicle in relation to a crash last November that seriously injured a pedestrian, according to a news release from the Johnson County Attorney’s Office.
A former mayor and a former clerk of Delhi, Iowa have both been charged with theft after a Delaware County Sheriff’s Office investigation, prompted by a report released last year by the Iowa State Auditor’s Office.
Two people have been arrested in relation to a shots fired call that Iowa City Police responded to in September.
A federal courtroom in Davenport overflowed Monday afternoon as community members gathered to show support of Jorge Gonzalez Ochoa, a Colombian immigrant who was publicly arrested last month by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Iowa City.
Historians, archivists, donors, and community members suing to prevent closure of the State Historical Society’s Iowa City research facility — and order the state to return materials already removed — now are seeking a “special master” to protect the “uniquely sensitive and irreplaceable” collections.
A woman was taken to the hospital Sunday with serious injuries after a shooting in a Marion motel, according to a news release from the Marion Police Department.
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.
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