- Scott Stewart Council Bluffs Nonpareil
The owner of a Dow City bar will spend up to a decade in prison for sexually abusing an employee.
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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird called the shooting of a homeless man in a Denison park by a police officer "legally justified" in a report issued Tuesday afternoon.
An officer-involved shooting occurred Friday night in Washington Park in Denison, according to a news release from Crawford County Emergency Management.
- Nick Hytrek
Earl Jordan was captured on video allegedly swiping at an officer's face before grabbing the officer by the throat in another encounter. Video footage allegedly shows Jordan picking up a piece of metal fencing and hurling it toward the Capitol door.
- DOLLY A. BUTZ
A red artificial flower tied to a chain-link fence marks the spot where Dau Deng Ador, a member of Sioux City's South Sudanese community, was found dead in a Sergeant Bluff storage yard in early January. He had only been living in Sioux City about five months before he went missing just days…
- JEFF REINITZ
Family members initially thought the noise was fireworks and assumed she had been hit by an errant firework.
- JEFF REINITZ
For the first time, Sarah Goodwin speaks out about Brian Goodwin's life before he was killed and his claimed role as a confidential informant.
Schultz, a 53-year-old married father of twin boys, was found dead April 24 in a field in rural Sac County, not far from where his semi truck was discovered abandoned more than five months earlier.
Randy Lee Patrie was found guilty of murder in the September 2012 death of Ken Gallmeyer in Nashua Iowa.
A spokesman for David Schultz's family told The Journal Friday they plan to have a private forensic pathology firm conduct a second autopsy on the Wall Lake, Iowa, trucker's body. "I don't feel comfortable with the results of the initial autopsy."
Upon completion of the investigation, all information will be forwarded to the Hardin County Attorney’s Office for review.
Since Nov. 11, 2023, Angie Lopez has been recovering from a traumatic brain injury and broken bones. "We 110% believe that was the turning point for Angie, when she felt her dog," Alex Lopez said of his sister. "It seemed like every day after she saw her dog, it was a reason for her to get going."
An Omaha man reportedly tackled one of the suspects in the shooting at the Chiefs celebration in downtown Kansas City Wednesday.
One of the two men shot and killed by off-duty Omaha Police Department officers on Saturday fired a handgun at officers prior to them shooting 21 times at the men’s vehicle, authorities said Thursday.
Law enforcement authorities charged a 34-year-old Iowa man with one count of kidnapping in the first degree following a Plymouth County standoff which was preceded by a multi-county high-speed chase and a statewide Amber Alert Tuesday.
Last week's local crime and court updates from The World-Herald.
Authorities in Waterloo arrested a man wanted for murder in Mississippi. Members of the U.S. Marshals Northeast Iowa Fugitive Task Force detained 28-year-old Dexter White Jr. on charges of capital murder and armed robbery on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2024.
A 28-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly attempted to rob a Family Dollar store in North Omaha after stabbing the Uber driver who had taken him there.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed in front of his family as he attempted to diffuse a verbal confrontation outside of a South Omaha bar, according to an OPD homicide detective's testimony.
The Omaha Police Department recorded 29 homicides in 2023 — down one from 30 in 2022, and a continued decline from the pandemic-induced spike in homicides in 2020, which left 37 people dead.
Sioux City Police Sgt. Tom Gill briefs the media after Great Southern Bank, 329 Pierce St. in downtown Sioux City, was robbed Tuesday morning.
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An Omaha teen and his father appeared in court Tuesday in connection with Saturday's homicide outside an Omaha gas station.
Two men who previously faced robbery charges in state court after a string of armed robberies at Omaha businesses and hotels last July are now facing federal charges.
Omaha police are investigating after two people were shot at an Omaha gas station Saturday afternoon.
Omaha police are investigating after shots were fired in a disturbance near 60th and L Streets Friday afternoon.
A former Omaha Police Department officer charged in a federal public corruption investigation pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and faces up to 30 months in federal prison.
One person is dead following a report of a shooting at a home on Eighmey Street in Waterloo, Iowa, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024.
A 36-year-old Omaha man was arrested after he allegedly rammed an Omaha police car, pushing that car into an officer and then leading police in a chase in central Omaha.
A Papillion man was arrested this week after he allegedly used a flying drone to secretly record video of a woman and child through the window of an apartment.