The father of one of the abducted cousins has been arrested for failing to keep appointments with a pre-trial probation officer and allegedly using drugs. Daniel Morrissey, 36, father of Lyric Cook-Morrissey, who disappeared in July and was found dead in December, has been on supervised release pending drug and domestic assault trials from incidents [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — An 18-year-old who received probation in March for a robbery that led to a serious assault on a Cedar Rapids police may now face revocation and a 25-year sentence on the first-degree robbery charge. Maurice Harden of Cedar Rapids was arrested and charged Thursday in Linn County District Court for drug possession [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids man is accused of attempted murder after police say he found another man with his ex-girlfriend. Mark C. Rolan Jr., 22, has been charged with attempted murder, willful injury and child endangerment after a shooting Thursday morning at an apartment at 5235 Johnson Ave. SW, No. 2. Rolan is [...]

A man was arrested Monday night in connection with an April shooting, police said. At around 8:20 p.m. Monday, Cedar Rapids police made a traffic stop at Wilson Avenue and 14th Street SW. The driver was identified as Bevon Forbes, 19, of Cedar Rapids. When officers searched his car, they found a .32 caliber revolver. [...]

Authorities say an Iowa mother held her infant son under a bathtub faucet to drown him. Twenty-four-old Ashley Cameron, of Onawa in western Iowa’s Monona County, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 15-month-old son, Markis Dahms. Assistant Onawa Police Chief Fouts said Thursday that investigators believe Cameron acted alone. Fouts [...]

Authorities say two people were arrested in Iowa City after merchants called to report the pair were passing counterfeit money. A news release from the Iowa City Police Department says counterfeit bills totaling about $2,000 were taken from the two after they were arrested on Saturday. They were identified as 20-year-old Christopher Carter, of Chicago; [...]

UPDATE: Iowa City police have arrested an 18-year-old man for his alleged role in an armed robbery last month. According to police, Daveon Curry, address unknown, was an outside lookout during a Feb. 22 robbery at Creekside Market on Highway 6. Over the weekendm Curry was arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon (joint criminal [...]

A Cedar Rapids woman has been charged with second-degree arson after authorities determined she set fire to the house she was renting. Terri J. Yates, 41, is accused of starting three separate fires in the kitchen of 1552 Seventh Ave. SE on Nov. 30. No one was injured in the blaze, which damaged the stove, [...]

The number of underage people arrested in Iowa City for illegally being in a bar dropped 69 percent last year from 2010, according to new annual arrest statistics. But the number of arrests for underage public intoxication, use of a fake or altered identification and operating while intoxicated rose in 2011 over 2010, and officials [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – San Francisco police say a man wanted on suspicion of rape was arrested after approaching a uniformed female officer on patrol and flirting with her. The unidentified 26-year-old man was taken into custody over the weekend on a no-bail warrant for rape issued in Hayward. Capt. Paul Chignell told the San [...]