A man who was injured in a deadly shooting last month at an apartment complex’s parking lot was arrested Thursday and faces a first-degree murder charge over one of the two people killed.
Doctors testified that Elsie Deason, who died less than a month later after being assaulted by her son, had bleeding in different areas of her brain and her condition was higher risk because she had been on blood thinners. Her son, George Deason, is on trial this week for fatally assaulting her in 2020.
A judge sentenced a Cedar Rapids man to 102 years in prison for sexually abusing two children. The girls were abused from the time they were each 10-years-old one for over the course of six years. The prosecutor called them brave for breaking their “silence” and speaking out. He hopes their story would encourage others.
The Iowa City Police Department responded to a shots fired call near City High School Wednesday afternoon, causing the school to briefly go on lockdown.
An East Dubuque man was shot Tuesday by a Delaware County Deputy who was attempting to take the man into custody in relation to the fatal shooting of a Fareway employee in Monticello.