Trish Mehaffey will have live coverage from the trial throughout the day
116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Trish Mehaffey will have live coverage from the trial throughout the day
Paul Hoff, convicted for distributing meth and firearms, testified Drew Blahnik repeatedly stabbed Chris Bagley in 2018. He saw the life drain from Bagley’s body.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man who was killed Monday in a two-vehicle wreck near Central City and Alburnett as Larry Hullerman, 62, of Waterloo.
Officers were called just before 6:30 a.m. to the Hawthorne Hills apartment complex — in the 2200 block of C Street SW — for reports of a single-vehicle wreck.
Police said it was determined that Johnnie L. Stevenson, 36, pulled out a semi-automatic handgun that he had concealed on his person and fired one shot at close range at the individual’s head.
Trish Mehaffey will have live coverage from the trial throughout the day
A Cedar Rapids man testified Drew Blahnik, on trial for first-degree murder, killed Chris Bagley for their drug dealer’s revenge. Blahnik is on trial for first-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty and plans to claim self-defense or defense of another during the trial.
Vehicles and buildings were damaged, but no injuries were reported
Emergency personnel found Charinea Triggs, 28, and Kevin Gouchee, 58, were involved in an altercation during which Triggs had stabbed Gouchee.
An investigation was initiated by Google in 2019, according to a criminal complaint, when the company made a report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children after a user uploaded child pornographic content to a Google Drive account.
Trish Mehaffey will have live coverage from the trial throughout the day
Joshua Lathrop was killed May 30, 2020, at the Sunset Village mobile home park when an argument involving five individuals including Lathrop escalated to a shootout.
Diana Depolis has been charged with reckless use of a firearm causing bodily injury and carrying a dangerous weapon while intoxicated
Drew Blahnik killed Chris Bagley in a “stabbing frenzy,” prosecutor says in her opening statement. Bagley had 17 stab wounds on his neck and torso.
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