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Iowa man pleads not guilty to killing four people with a metal pipe earlier this month

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Iowa man accused of killing four people with a metal pipe earlier this month has filed a written plea of not guilty to murder charges. The Linn County Sheriff’s Department has said that Truesdell, of Marion, attacked four people with a metal pipe on June 5 in an outbuilding at a rural Iowa home near …

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Prosecutors: Robber fired 10 shots at wounded Iowa deputy

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A Chicago man robbed two Iowa gas station employees at gunpoint and confined them in a cooler before he fired 10 shots at a sheriff’s deputy who responded to the crime, seriously wounding him, prosecutors said Tuesday. The shots fired by Stanley Donahue injured the left hip and leg of Linn County Deputy William Halverson, who …

Suspect in Iowa deputy’s shooting arrested after manhunt

COGGON, Iowa — A Chicago man who allegedly shot and wounded a sheriff’s deputy after robbing an Iowa gas station was captured and charged Monday after eluding authorities during a 14-hour manhunt. Stanley L. Donahue, 36, was taken into custody Monday afternoon just north of Coggon, Iowa, where the robbery and shooting took place at a Casey’s General Store on …

Judge may void thousands more Iowa absentee ballot requests

IOWA CITY, Iowa — An Iowa judge who nullified 50,000 absentee ballot requests in Iowa’s second-largest county seems ready to void thousands more in a neighboring county at the urging of President Trump’s reelection campaign. Judge Ian Thornhill heard arguments Wednesday in Johnson County, the state’s most Democratic-leaning, in a similar request for an injunction sought by Trump’s campaign and …

Trump campaign sues key Iowa counties over absentee mailings

IOWA CITY, Iowa — President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has sued two Democratic-leaning Iowa counties that are making it easy to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to invalidate tens of thousands of voters’ absentee ballot applications. At issue are absentee ballot request forms that the counties are sending to registered voters with personal information already filled in, …