Trish Mehaffey

The new University of Iowa Law Technology Law Clinic gives students the chance to show defense attorneys and others how police are using surveillance and other technology to boost criminal cases, and how can they defend their clients.

Both candidates running for Linn County Auditor will make transparency and financial responsibility top priorities for the office, along with promoting trust with the public and strengthening the voting systems.

A prosecutor dropped a the harassment charge against a UI FIJi member, two days after a woman, who sued the frat member and the fraternity and its national affiliates, announced the lawsuit had been settled.

The mother of Cordal Lewis, who was robbed and fatally shot in 2022, told a woman involved in the plan to rob him that ended in murder, that she wanted her to “suffer” and feel “heartbreak and emptiness” as she and her family have endured.

The murder trial for the Cedar Rapids man charged with hiring two men to kill Chris Bagley in 2018 has been bumped again. This time to June 10.

A woman who sued two FIJI fraternity members for sexually assaulting her in 2020 and the fraternities national affiliates has resolved her lawsuit against all parties.

A Clayton County farmer, who was previously sued for verbally and physically assaulting migrant workers, was sentenced last week to over 15 years in federal prison for stealing livestock, wire fraud and a bankruptcy fraud scheme.

A Marion woman who was kidnapped, stabbed and strangled to death in February was pregnant or had been recently pregnant before her death, according to information revealed during a Friday pretrial hearing in Linn County District Court. The lawyer for one of the men accused in that slaying asked a judge to keep that information out of trial.

The second lawsuit filed by the mother of Lorena Schulte, the nurse who was killed by Anamosa prison inmates in 2021, has been dismissed by judge for failing to exhaust administrative remedies with the state and missing deadlines.

The Iowa Supreme Court denied appeal for one Fairfield teen who killed their Spanish teacher in 2021 and asked the court to toss out the 35-year mandatory minimum of his life sentence.

Carlos Garcia, charged in an Interstate 380 crash that killed Jeffery Lankford in 2022, is set for trial next month after the date has been continued multiple times. Garcia also picked up another charge for drugs while on pretrial release and remains in jail.

A 14-year-old boy who admitted to firing a handgun at a police officer in May pleaded to three felonies and six misdemeanors. He was prosecuted as a youthful offender and will be sent to the Boys State Training School in Eldora until he turns 18.

A judge will not accept a teen’s plea to two charges in a fatal drag racing crash that killed a Waterloo woman in 2023, ruling he found “deficiencies” in the trial information — causing confusion over the number of charges against the teen.

A Coralville man is convicted of assaulting a jail officer in Muscatine County while the officer was conducting an investigation about contraband coming into the jail.

One of the Iowa City teens charged in fatal drag racing crash pleaded to homicide by vehicle - reckless driving. It’s a 10-year prison sentence but it will be suspended and he will serve probation, according to plea agreement.