Trish Mehaffey

This week’s On the Record talks about National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The annual observance is April 2-8 and this …

VINTON – A judge said Thursday that in ‘good conscience” he couldn’t give a deferred judgment to a 19-year-old convicted …

This installment of On the Record talks about the Lethality Assessment Program (LAP) that local law enforcement started using recently …

BACKGROUND A 2000 disappearance of a Tama woman was investigated as a missing persons case until November, when investigators said …

This installment of On the Record talks about the gun bill, House File 517, which was approved Thursday by the …

CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal jury convicted a woman, formerly of Olin, after about two hours of deliberation Wednesday for …

CEDAR RAPIDS – A Hiawatha man accused of killing his 56-year-old mother by shoving a rotten apple down her throat …

CEDAR RAPIDS – An Iowa City native who for the last three years directed federal prosecutions in a district encompassing …

FORT MADISON – Patti Wachtendorf, the new warden at the Iowa State Penitentiary, says it is not her job to …

CEDAR RAPIDS – The Linn County jury in the Kendu Petties murder trial didn’t reach a verdict after two days …

CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge, who said Gervais ‘Ken” Ngombwa actively participated in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, sentenced him …

CEDAR RAPIDS – A Lebanese man was charged Tuesday in federal court for buying firearms in Lebanon that were shipped …

CEDAR RAPIDS – In a 2015 interview with police, Kendu Petties adamantly denied being involved in the shooting of two …

Young lawyers starting out usually can’t afford to open a private practice because of the crushing law school debt they …

CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids police investigator testified Friday that police initially thought another man, not Kendu Petties, had …