Trish Mehaffey

A prosecutor, during his opening statement, said a Marion man ambushed and bludgeoned four people with a 3-foot metal pipe on June 5, 2024. He said surveillance video and evidence found at the scene will point to one attacker: Luke Truesdell. The defense said there’s no evidence of an ambush or that Truesdell did it.

An Iowa City man, accused of fatally assaulting the mother of his toddler, will claim self-defense, diminished capacity and intoxication at his Jan. 27 murder trial.

A judge sentenced a Cedar Rapids man to 30 years for sexually assaulting two children and molesting another child. One girl was under 12 when the abuse started and the others were 12 or 13 years old.

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 missing 38-year-old Cedar Rapids man was found dead in or near the edge of the Cedar River on Wednesday night, police said. His family reported him missing on Saturday. Police said his death is under investigation but isn’t considered suspicious.

A Cedar Rapids man faces 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a teen over the course of two years. He repeatedly forced himself on her, starting when she was 13-years-old. He pleaded last week before his trial was set to start.

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 Decorah man was sentenced Tuesday to 50 years in prison for killing his girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter in 2017. He must serve a mandatory 35 years before being eligible for parole.

A temporary injunction to stop Hawkeye Waste from operating in Johnson County has been lifted because the company complied with a judge’s order to provide proof of workers’ comp insurance

Here’s why the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office continued its pretrial GPS monitoring program after initial pandemic funds for the pilot program ended in 2024.

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 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.

Baynon Berry, of Marion, is sentenced up to 50 years in prison for his role in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Michael McCune in Cedar Rapids on Feb. 18, 2023. The Marion teen was the last of the four sentenced on Monday. The judge imposed no mandatory minimum to serve before being eligible for parole.

The city of Cedar Rapids’ code enforcement manager pleaded not guilty this week to submitting forged pet prescriptions insurance claim. A tampering with records charge was added to the two initial charges last month.

Johnson County has renewed its motion for an injunction against Hawkeye Waste because its workers’ comp insurance coverage lapsed in September. A worker was crushed by a skid loader last year and an OSHA investigation revealed the company didn’t have workers’ comp insurance, which is a violation of Iowa law.