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Editors note: The video above contains footage that some may find disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised. The search for Mollie Tibbetts drew national interest. Young, bright and described as “everyone’s counselor,” Tibbetts, 20, was a college student from rural Iowa whose missing person case involved hundreds of community members in her search and drew national media to Brooklyn, Iowa, about an hour outside Des Moines. Tibbetts had disappeared while out on a run on July 18, 2...

Des Moines Register The trial of Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the 26-year-old former farmhand facing life in prison for allegedly killing Tibbetts nearly three years ago, continues Thursday. Jurors heard from six witnesses Wednesday, including the boyfriend of Mollie Tibbetts, during a short day of opening statements and testimony in the first-degree murder trial. During his opening statement, prosecutor Bart Klaver said the jury would see evidence that Bahena Rivera’s car was seen in the are...

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USA TODAY Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began his first full day in state prison Wednesday after he was found guilty of murdering George Floyd in a landmark trial. Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after Floyds death in police custody last May. Tears of joy, relief and resolve to continue fighting for racial justice filled the streets of Minneapolis and around the nation after the verdict was read Tuesday aftern...

What happens now in the proceedings against the man accused in the death of George Floyd? Judge Peter Cahill told the 14 members of the jury that they should return to court at 9 a.m. CDT Monday and be prepared to hear closing arguments from attorneys on both sides. After that, Cahill will instruct the jurors on the laws in the case before the panel members start verdict deliberations. Two members of the jury will be informed that they were alternates and will not be part of deliberations. Th...

Des Moines Register Just after noon on Nov. 6, Melinda McNabb received a call from a prison counselor at Clarinda Correctional Facility.  Her son, Christopher James Rios, an inmate serving decades for a burglary and robbery, had contracted the coronavirus.   For McNabb, 52 and a mother of four, the news was worrying but expected: Coronavirus was peaking in Iowa’s prisons. “I figured it was just a matter of time,” she said of her 28-year-old son’s positive test. He was one of 4,80...

USA TODAY MINNEAPOLIS — The chief medical examiner for Hennepin County who conducted the autopsy on George Floyd testified Friday in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin,  telling jurors that Floyds breathing did not appear to be impaired by the placement of Chauvins knee on Floyds neck. Dr. Andrew Baker testified that Floyds existing and underlying heart disease was a contributing cause of his death; it was evidenced by a heart that "weighed more than it should" and coronary arteries th...

MINNEAPOLIS — George Floyd could be heard pleading for his life and saying "I cant breathe" in four police body-camera videos prosecutors played for jurors Wednesday afternoon in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Prosecutors played videos from the body-cams of former officers Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao, as well as part of Chauvins video. The videos revealed that Chauvin defended his tactics after an ambulance left the scene, remarking to a ...

The trial of Derek Chauvin, a former police officer charged in George Floyds death, starts March 8 in Minneapolis. Heres what to know.