Iowa courts

A federal judge has blocked Title IX protections for LGBTQ students from taking effect in Iowa and several other Republican-led states including Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota.

Kyle Ricke, 43, was found guilty of first-degree murder for the death of Officer Kevin Cram in 2023. Ricke faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that a law that will ban abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy can take effect.

Miranda Rights include a right to an attorney, but that right doesn't mean that an attorney will be free in states like Iowa. A Marshall Project investigation found Iowa imposes some of the highest fees in the nation.

A bill in the Iowa House would make booking photos confidential in most cases, until a person is actually convicted or pleads guilty to a crime.

U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Rose declared the gender balance requirement violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and ordered the state court administrator to stop enforcing it for elections to the State Judicial Nominating Commission.

Prosecutors in one of Iowa's biggest counties are working longer hours to try and keep up in the face of shortages across the state. The head of the state bar association says the issue is "multifaceted."

The ruling means Iowa officials cannot enforce a ban on books with sexually explicit content. It also blocks a ban on K-6 instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Two lawsuits aim to block the state from enforcing SF 496, which bans books with sexual content and prohibits instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in K-6.

Jeremy Goodale, one of the two Fairfield teenagers who pleaded guilty for the murder of Nohema Graber, must serve 25 years before the possibility of parole.