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Linn County Attorney Nick Maybanks says prosecutors will file about 25 percent fewer felonies in fiscal year 2024, which is the first time violent crimes have declined since post-pandemic spikes. He noted the office also successfully prosecuted eight homicides in the first four months of the year.

Padgett guilty of first degree murder (click for more)

A judge convicted a Cedar Rapids man of first-degree murder Monday for fatally beating and stabbing his friend, Dennis First, in 2007. The bench trial was last month in Linn County.

Friday marked the second day of testimony in the Curtis Padgett murder trial in Linn County.Padgett was just arrested last year and accused of killing Dennis Fi

Testimony started Thursday in a 2007 cold case of a Cedar Rapids man severely beaten and stabbed to death at his Hawthorne Hills apartment. His former neighbor is on trial for the crime.

Crime scene investigators testified Friday about oven mitts soaked in blood and the murder weapon found in Cedar Rapisd apartment of Dennis First, who was fatally stabbed in 2007. The ex-girlfriend of Curtis Padgett, on trial in the killing, also testified Friday that he denied being the killer but had a suicidal incident and held a knife to his neck in 2010.

Opening statements and first witness testimonies began Thursday morning in the trial of Curtis Padgett.He alledgedly

Robert Vavasour won a $13.38 million jury verdict from his uncle's estate after suing him under New York's Child Victims Act.

Cedar Rapids Police said investigators had spent more than 15 years evaluating evidence in the case, leading to the arrest and charges.

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