CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – An Iowa City man will have to serve to up to 12 years in prison for his role in a shooting that happened at the Clock Tower Parking Ramp at the intersection of Iowa Avenue and Gilbert Street back on May 13th, 2023.

Officers in the area heard multiple gunshots and responded at about 11:45 p.m. that evening. First responders said they found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds on the sidewalk next to the parking ramp on the Iowa Avenue side. The victim was taken to the hospital.

Police arrested three individuals in relation to the case. Investigators say Alexander Voudhivoug was the one who shot the victim multiple times.

Voudhivong pled guilty to Willful Injury Resulting in Serious Injury and Reckless Use of a Firearm. He was sentenced to serve 10 years and 2 years consecutively for both charges.

He will not be eligible for parole until he has served a minimum of 5 years of his sentence.

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Hawkeyes will face Nebraska (and only Nebraska) twice next season

IOWA CITY — It’s Nebraska twice. USC and UCLA for a likely (and extremely challenging) weekend home stand. And a trip to the Pacific Northwest.

The Big Ten released its 2024-25 opponent assignments for women’s basketball Tuesday morning.

Each league team will play 18 games, and with the Big Ten expanded to 18 teams, that means 16 “single-plays” and a home-and-away with just one rival.

For three-time defending Big Ten tournament champion Iowa, that double-play is with Nebraska.

USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon are new to the Big Ten next season, and both of the two Los Angeles teams are possible preseason top-five teams.

USC sophomore-to-be JuJu Watkins is an early candidate to follow Iowa’s departed Caitlin Clark as national player of the year.

The Trojans and the Bruins both travel to Iowa City. The Hawkeyes play both Washington and Oregon on the road.

Iowa is coming off back-to-back trips to the NCAA championship game. The Hawkeyes won a school-record 34 games last season.

Two starters return in senior Sydney Affolter and junior Hannah Stuelke. Iowa also landed Villanova’s Lucy Olsen via the transfer portal and welcomes a strong freshman class headed by post Ava Heiden.

Dates, times and television information will be announced in early fall.

Iowa women’s basketball, 2024-25

Big Ten home and away — Nebraska

Big Ten home only — Indiana, Maryland, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Wisconsin

Big Ten away only — Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Washington

Non-conference (so far)

Nov. 10 — Virginia Tech (Ally Tipoff, at Charlotte, N.C.)

Nov. 16 — Kansas (at Sioux Falls, S.D.)

Dec. 7 — Tennessee (at Brooklyn, N.Y.)

TBA — Iowa State (home)

TBA — At Drake

TBA — Northern Iowa (home)

Five non-conference other games are yet to be disclosed.

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NEW YORK – In response to the nation’s immigration crisis Iowa’s Catholic bishops have taken aim at both state and federal lawmakers, calling on the former to seek alternatives to a new law that allows the state to deport undocumented immigrants back to their home country, and calling on the latter to “do their job” and a find a solution.

On April 10 Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law SF 2340 – a law that makes it a crime for undocumented immigrants to enter, attempt to enter, or be found in Iowa if they have previously been deported or barred from entering the United States. If arrested under the law, a person could be required to return to the foreign nation they came from.

If a person refuses to return from where they came, they will be charged with a felony.

In a May 1 joint statement, the bishops of Iowa said they opposed the law because it focuses on punitive sanctions, undermines family unity, reduces humanitarian protections, and doesn’t provide any sort of solutions for long-time residents without legal status.

Further, the bishops lament that the law would allow state officials to prosecute an individual for state immigration crimes, even if that person’s application for immigration relief is pending before federal authorities, or they have received federal authorization to be present. They also highlight that state and local officials have little training in interpreting federal immigration law.

“We ask officials to ensure the protection of human rights and dignity of the persons involved,” the Iowa bishops said in the statement, published through the Iowa Catholic Conference. “Families should receive special consideration and not be separated.”

The statement is signed by Archbishop Thomas Zinkula of Dubuque, Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City, and Bishop William Joensen of Des Moines. The statement is also signed by Father Kenneth Kuntz, the diocesan administrator of Davenport.

Under the new law, a police officer may not arrest or detain anyone under this law if they are on certain premises or grounds, including those of a church, synagogue, or other established places of religious worship. Tom Chapman, the executive director of the Iowa Catholic Conference, told Crux May 6 that the dioceses are aware of this aspect of the law, but unclear about how that might impact the dioceses’ response.

In a statement, Reynolds said the law is a direct response to the Biden administration’s inability to secure the border, and enforce the nation’s immigration laws. Although numbers have started to slightly drop, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows that there were more than 555,000 southwest land border encounters in the first three months of the year.

“The Biden Administration has failed to enforce our nation’s immigration laws, putting the protection and safety of Iowans at risk,” Reynolds said. “Those who come into our country illegally have broken the law, yet Biden refuses to deport them.”

“This bill gives Iowa law enforcement the power to do what he is unwilling to do: enforce immigration laws already on the books,” Reynolds continued.

The Justice Department has threatened to sue Iowa over the new law, giving them until today to suspend its enforcement. The law is scheduled to go into effect on July 1.

In their statement, the Iowa bishops also address Congress’s inability to pass immigration reform. They acknowledge that Catholics may disagree on how to approach reforming the immigration system, but ask lawmakers in Washington D.C. to “resist easy answers and do their job.”

“As the Iowa Catholic Conference said decades ago, we again ask for ‘border protection policies that are consistent with humanitarian values and with the need to treat all individuals with respect, while allowing authorities to carry out the critical task of identifying and preventing entry of terrorists and dangerous criminals,” the bishops said.

“As we remember our history as immigrants in Iowa, let us work together towards a fair and compassionate resolution of our challenges with migration,” the bishops continued.

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