The former Calhoun County sheriff accused of assaulting his wife and a police officer in April will not be punished with jail time nor will he be officially convicted of domestic abuse if he abides by the terms of his probation for six months, according to court records.

A Carroll man who owns a strip of land near Arcadia — part of which is used for the city’s yard waste dump site — is suing the city for failing to properly maintain the site, according to court records.

Calhoun County has agreed to pay a former employee of its former sheriff $900,000 to settle a civil rights complaint she made against him for alleged sexual harassment and other abusive behavior.

DENISON — Esperanza Barrena still has moments when she expects her husband to come home from work at the end of the day, even though he burned in a fiery crash more than a year ago that was caused by a drunk driver.

The Calhoun County sheriff, who was arrested this month for assaulting his wife and a police officer, has resigned.

JCPenney’s insurance company is suing the city of Carroll for more than $250,000 for the damage a water main break caused to the downtown store in January 2018.

Matt McDermott was going about his day as an attorney in Des Moines when he got the call a few weeks ago.

A deputy of the now-suspended Calhoun County sheriff confiscated the sheriff’s cellphone last week as part of the investigation into his alleged assaults of his wife and a police officer, according to court records.

The allegations that the Calhoun County sheriff attacked his wife and a police officer — and the subsequent petition to remove him from elected office — are the result of a "witch hunt," the wife said in a video she posted online.

The Calhoun County sheriff, who was arrested Saturday night for attacking his wife and a police officer, has been suspended without pay pending a judge's decision about whether he should be removed from his elected office, according to court records.

The Calhoun County Sheriff assaulted his wife and a police officer Saturday night, and it took six officers to subdue and arrest him, according to court records.

They used to be called “underage beer parties.”

Matthew McDermott, a Kuemper Catholic graduate who grew up in Carroll, has been appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court.

The 27-year-old Colorado man who tossed water onto U.S. Rep. Steve King as he dined in Fort Dodge last March was sentenced Thursday to two years of federal probation, according to court records.

The 64-year-old former Carroll man who bludgeoned and beheaded a rabbit at a Des Moines animal shelter in December was sentenced to up to two years in prison.

A 28-year-old woman who was declared incompetent to stand trial for repeatedly stabbing her boyfriend with scissors in 2018 and who recently was accused of arson in Des Moines was detained in Carroll on Monday after she received emergency mental health treatment.

A long-time lawyer and judge from Harlan who was appointed to the Iowa Supreme Court in 2018 has been named its new chief justice.

A 36-year-old Manning man who allegedly fired a gun within city limits has been fined more than $1,000 for hunting, trapping and fishing violations and still faces a weapons charge that is punishable with prison time, according to court records.

A downturn in the farm economy several years ago threatened to sink Bob Adams’ vehicle dealerships, which forced him to defraud creditors and customers to keep the businesses afloat, Adams told the Times Herald today.

A former Denison car dealership owner accused of defrauding creditors and customers over the course of two years will not go to prison and will not be formally convicted of a crime, according to a plea agreement that was approved Tuesday.

A woman was trapped in her basement overnight by her roommate, who locked the door by screwing it shut last week, according to court records.

A 52-year-old Carroll man was arrested for public intoxication at local businesses four times over the course of five days this month, according to court records.

The 49-year-old rural Jefferson man who sexually abused his daughter lost his first appeal of his convictions and his 75-year prison sentence, according to court records.

The 25-year-old Newell man accused of igniting at least two fires so that he could extinguish them in his capacity as a volunteer firefighter — and who also is accused of molesting a young girl — is negotiating a single plea deal that would conclude all of the cases, according to court records.

A 57-year-old Lytton man is accused of stabbing another man at least twice Thursday night in an attempt to kill him.

A 26-year-old Carroll man who has a history of vehicle burglary went into an unlocked vehicle on the north side of town overnight in December and stole a handgun, according to court records.

A 30-year-old Denison man was sentenced last week to up to 15 years in prison for having a sizeable amount of methamphetamine and a switchblade knife in his vehicle in Manning last year, according to court records.

A 34-year-old Glidden man is accused of assaulting the mother of his children last week as she held a child and of kicking two sheriff’s deputies as they arrested him, according to court records.

A 35-year-old Carroll man was accused this week of sexually abusing a 15-year-old child in July at his apartment, according to court records.

A 29-year-old Storm Lake man accused of dozens of burglaries in three states is finally set to face his felony charges in Carroll County for four break-ins in 2015 in Dedham and Templeton, according to court records.

A former Scranton man was granted a “tremendous opportunity” in 2018 when he received 90 days in jail rather than a prison sentence, County Attorney Thomas Laehn said last week, despite being found guilty by a jury of felony drug charges.

A 42-year-old Carroll-born attorney is among the 12 people who have applied to fill a vacancy of the Iowa Supreme Court, according to state court officials.

A 36-year-old Manning man was arrested Saturday when a police officer found him with a loaded shotgun — and wearing camouflage and fox urine — in the backyard of some houses in town, according to court records.