Trish Mehaffey

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to over 7 years for possessing gun after he had previous conviction for distributing heroin.

A mother, during a sexual abuser's sentencing, said there is "no pain greater" for a parent than knowing their child was harmed, especially by someone they trusted and treated as family. "You didn't just break the law — you broke hearts and you broke trust."

The city's housing and nuisance manager pleaded last week to a lesser charge for forging a receipt for pet medications to an insurance company. He received deferred judgment Tuesday.

Bremer County man who sexually abused three children and then distributed images of child sexual abuse, was sentenced to more than 38 years in federal prison.

A Cedar Rapids man who solicited minors to send him sexually explicit images was convicted and faces 15 and possibly up to 40 years in federal prison.

A Tama man was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison for distributing and possessing child pornography over several years. He must also pay over $15,000 in restitution to victims.

Surveillance video showed the two couples bludgeoned with a metal pipe in June of 2024 were attacked separately. The video was played during day four of the trial for Luke Truesdell, who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder.

A prosecutor found an Iowa City woman was justified in using deadly force against her former live-in boyfriend after he forced is way into her home in June.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 22 years for sexually assaulting a child over the course of six years. The child was 6 years old when the abuse started and didn't end until she was 12 years old.

A former UI employee, who pocketed nearly $1 million by diverting production and design jobs for the university's machine shop to his own business, pleaded to two charges and faces up to 10 years in prison. He will also pay over $170,000 to UI in restitution.

A judge ordered Hawkeye Waste to stop operating in Johnson County because it doesn't have workers' comp insurance. The county had renewed its motion for a temporary injunction after discovering the company had a lapse in insurance beginning in September.

A former Iowa City woman was extradited from Missouri to Iowa City and formally charged with first-degree murder in the 1992 death of an infant found at the city's landfill.

Prosecutor, during his opening, says Dakota Van Patten and McKinley Louisma couldn't have beaten, tortured and killed a 20-year-old Marion woman without the other.

The DNA tissue sample taken from a baby left in an Iowa City landfill in 1992 was so "degraded and contaminated" that traditional DNA testing couldn't help investigators identify the infant or his mother. Advanced testing developed by a Texas lab in 2018 helped investigators identify the mother, who was arrested last week.

Darin Luneckas enjoys the challenge of helping an injured worker going up against a big insurance company that is refusing to pay for proper medical care and loss wages.

The City of Cedar Rapids' code enforcement manager is charged with insurance fraud and forgery. He submitted false medicine prescriptions for a pet that the vet didn't authorize.

The big brother of 16-year-old Michael McCune, who was targeted by four juveniles and fatally shot in 2023, said during a sentencing hearing Monday it's not fair that he can only look at a gravestone, instead of seeing his brother's smile that "lit up a room."

A former Decorah man was convicted by a jury this week in the death of a 15-year-old girl, who was the daughter of his girlfriend. The girl went missing March 30, 2017 and was never seen again. Investigators determined she was dead but the body has never been found.

Two of the men convicted in the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in 2018 sat in a Linn County courtroom two weeks ago and spoke to Bagley's heartbroken parents and siblings, who have been searching for answers about how — and why — their loved one was killed more than six years ago.

Man still has other pending cases for domestic assault and violating sex offender registration requirements.