By Dave Seavy —-   Jill Gaulding attended the Iowa Governor’s Conference on LGBTQ Youth, and announced that Kinnick Stadium could be hauled into court for its selection of color for the visiting sports team’s locker room. It’s a relief to know that we now have another potential issue over which to file suit [...]

An attorney for a young man charged in a double-homicide in Manchester wants part of a police interview kept out of his client’s trial. Brandon L. Ahlers, 20, is charged with two counts of aiding and abetting first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Richard Sweet, 55, and Janet Sweet, 62, both of Manchester. He is [...]

  If your roof leaked, you could set out an army of pans and buckets all over the floor to catch the rivulets as they fell. That would work for a while. Then when those containers started overflowing, you could empty them and watch them fill up again, over and over — empty and fill, [...]

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s dismissal of hundreds of hostile work environment claims by women truck drivers involving CRST Expedited. The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit means Cedar Rapids-based CRST cannot collect $4.4 million in legal and other expenses awarded by the lower court [...]

A District Court judge has sided with the Iowa Board of Medicine in the case of a former University of Iowa surgeon who was fired in 2005. Johnson County District Court Judge Paul Miller dismissed the case filed by Adel Al-Jurf, who requested relief on judicial review after his appeals in an administrative case were [...]

Next week, the 6th Judicial District judges must replace the district’s longest-serving clerk of court, with more than 20 years in Linn County. The judges say the position is crucial to the functioning of the court, and someone like Sharon Modracek with her institutional knowledge is “irreplaceable.” Modracek, 65, retires Thursday after 30 years of [...]

A 34-year-old former ROTC instructor at the University of Northern Iowa has been given seven months in prison for having child pornography. Martin Weeks had lived in Waterloo before moving to New York. He was sentenced on Monday in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. Weeks also must serve five years of supervised release and [...]

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky waived his preliminary hearing Tuesday, a decision that moves him toward a trial on charges of child sex abuse and vacates the possibility that he would face his accusers in court Tuesday. Sandusky told reporters as he left the courthouse that he would “stay the course, fight [...]

Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady told a U.S. Senate Judiciary committee this week that Iowa has had cameras in the courtroom for more than 30 years and it has never disrupted or interfered with the court proceedings. The court had to discontinue recording oral arguments for a few years because of budget cuts [...]

UPDATE: Kristen McAdam said Monday her life was forever changed May 29, 2010 when her husband, Jeffrey McAdam, was murdered at an Interstate 80 rest stop near Victor. “It turned it upside down and tore apart what I knew and loved to be normal,” Kristen McAdam said. Peter Riggs took a man away from a [...]