3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (777+ words) IOWA CITY — A former Solon High School choir instructor, charged last month with sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of three teenage students, has been allowed to post bond and is now out of jail. Joel Mark Foreman, 43, of Mount Vernon…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (107+ words) Brent Boggess.jpg thegazette.com Brent Bogess, 42, of Waterloo, with one of his sons. $3 million settlement for family of Waterloo man fatally shot by police A Cedar Rapids lawyer wins a $3 million settlement for a family of a Waterloo man…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (884+ words) A Cedar Rapids lawyer won a $3 million settlement for a Waterloo man’s three minor children after their father, who eluded a traffic stop and told police he had “mental health issues,” was fatally shot by one officer in 2021, as eight…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (110+ words) thegazette.com This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, and partially redacted by source, shows boxes of records being stored on the stage in the White and Gold Ballroom at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach,…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (841+ words) The Cedar Rapids Police Department, 505 First St. SW CEDAR RAPIDS — Transparency, community investment and data-led decision-making top the list of qualities Cedar Rapids leaders hope to see in the city’s next police chief. City Council members on Tuesday approved the…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (253+ words) CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids man, convicted of offering money in exchange for sex from who he believed was a 15-year-old girl, was sentenced Tuesday to probation. Richard Allen Dryml, 58, originally charged with two counts of prostitution-purchasing services of person…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (529+ words) VINTON — A judge ruled last month that a former Atkins city clerk who pleaded and received a deferred judgment for misappropriating city funds and altering documents, which increased her salary, must also pay over $56,000 in restitution to the city. Sixth…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (693+ words) CEDAR RAPIDS — With the uptick in financial exploitation of older individuals and dependent abuse crimes, the Linn County Attorney’s Office has reassigned caseloads to have one prosecutor handle all of those cases, along with other financial crimes. Linn County Attorney…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (603+ words) CEDAR RAPIDS — Cedar Rapids Police Chief David Dostal will be retiring soon, ending a career of about 34 years with the department. The news was included in a City Council agenda released late Friday. Council members are expected to vote on…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (430+ words) CEDAR RAPIDS — A Cedar Rapids woman, who started two fires at two different houses, one on the northwest side and the other on the southwest side of Cedar Rapids, pleaded Thursday to lesser charges. Ruth Ann Gee, 33, during a plea…...