CEDAR RAPIDS — A 24-year-old Cedar Rapids father suspected of killing his 17-month-old daughter last year pleaded not guilty Friday to first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death. Also, a District Court judge lowered Zyriah Schlitter’s bond from $500,000 to $100,000 despite arguments from Assistant Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks, who said Schlitter has [...]
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The former principal of an elementary school in Dubuque pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon to charges that he produced, distributed, received and possessed child pornography by, among other things, secretly filming boys using the bathroom at his school. Robert Burke, 43, was arrested June 3 after law enforcement agents raided his home in Dubuque and [...]
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A judge reduced a $500,000 bond to $100,000 Friday for a Hiawatha woman charged with killing a toddler last year. Amy Parmer, 27, charged with first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death, will be allowed to pay 10 percent of the $100,000 cash or surety bond pending her trial. A preliminary hearing is set [...]
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A second man has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a woman at a campground this week. Thomas R. Auner, 49, of 640 Berkshire Lane in North Liberty, was arrested Thursday and faces a charge of third-degree sexual abuse for an incident Sunday night at Scales Pointe Campground, 1850 Scales Bend Road, near Coralville Lake. [...]
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The man suspected of killing his wife and fleeing to South Dakota earlier this month told investigators he “lost it and blacked out” during an argument in their Greene home. Thomas J. Petersen, 39, of Greene, now faces a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the June 4 stabbing death of his wife, Judy [...]
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A judge reduced bonds Wednesday for the two people charged in the first-degree murder of a toddler last year. Amy Parmer, 27, of Hiawatha, and Zyriah Schlitter, 24, of Cedar Rapids, are both charged with first-degree murder and child endangerment resulting in death. They are accused of killing 17-month-old Kamryn Schlitter, who died from head [...]
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Steven Roloson has been picking up spare change for the past six months – by yanking bill-changing machines off the walls of car washes with his pickup, according to court documents. “He was hooking his truck to them and pulling them out of the wall,” said Marion Police Lt. Scott Elam. Roloson, 37, was charged [...]
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Allied Property and Casualty and six affiliated insurance companies have agreed to pay a $50,000 penalty to the State of Iowa because of coding errors that caused them to overcharge on 1,721 Iowa auto insurance policies with an “accident forgiveness” feature. The problems came to light in 2009 when the Iowa Insurance Division began investigating a complaint from [...]
continue »The United States International Trade Commission has made an initial decision favoring Whirlpool Corp. in its complaint that unfair imports from Mexico and Korea are harming sales of the bottom-mount refrigerator-freezers it makes in Middle Amana. In a statement Friday, May 13, the commission said it will proceed with an investigation into the complaint based [...]
continue »The government has reached a settlement with the owner of six Wendy’s Old Fashisoned Hamburgers restaurants in Cedar Rapids regarding disability violations. Under the settlement, reached Thursday, owner Parco Ltd. agreed to remedy 96 alleged instances of Americans with Disabilities Act non-compliance involving failure to remove architectural barriers to access by Sept. 30, U.S. Attorney [...]
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