Trish Mehaffey

Two nurses started a nonprofit for a sober house to help women in early recovery of alcohol or substance abuse. Potential applicants for the eight beds available must be sober for 14 to 30 days and have gone through rehab and are in treatment before being an eligible renter.

A judge sentenced an Iowa City woman to five years in prison for helping her son escape to Jordan to avoid being prosecuted for robbing and attempting to kill a woman on the University of Iowa campus in 2022. She was convicted by a Johnson County jury last month.

A former Cyclones basketball player that didn’t play last season because of an Achilles injury pleaded Tuesday to underage gambling. He is the 10th student-athlete to plead to the lesser charge in the state probe of illegal gambling.

A 19-year-old Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 25 years for a vehicular homicide and a shooting incident in 2022. He faced up to 50 years but received a plea deal because he was 18 at the time.

One former UI basketball player and two former football players each plead to a lesser charge of underage gambling. They must pay $645 fine.

Katy Rasmussen took on the role as the sexual assault nurse examiner coordinator to give back to the community and support sexual assault survivors. She leads the UI SANE program, which includes 15 other nurse examiners in Johnson County.

Former Hawkeye receiver, Arland Bruce IV, pleaded guilty Friday to the lesser charge of underage gambling. He faces up to a $645 fine.

Four teens accused of fatally shooting Michael McCune, 16, of Cedar Rapids, in February are moving through the juvenile and adult court justice system. One has pleaded guilty, one wants to go back to juvenile court and two have trials scheduled.

He and his wife face up to 5 years in prison.

A Johnson County magistrate ruled a North Liberty teen driving a sports utility vehicle who hit a jogger in a marked Iowa City crosswalk is guilty of failure to yield to a pedestrian, a simple misdemeanor. The teen faces a fine up to $1,000, a driver's license suspension of up to 180 days or both, according to police.

A Cedar Rapids man, who sent threatening FB messages to a federal prosecutor and fired flares at the federal courthouse, was sentenced this week to over 6 years in prison.

A Linn County jury found a Cedar Rapids man guilty of 13 charges for pointing, and aiming a shotgun at two police officers in July 2022. He faces up to 83 years in prison.

A Hiawatha man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for charges stemming from him shooting at his ex-girlfriend’s SUV, in which their 5-year-old son was a passenger. The woman says the multiple bullets “narrowly missed us both.”

A Cedar Rapids man who led police on a high speed chase and then pointed a shotgun at two officers last year revealed details of the night that he told police he couldn’t remember. He also told a jury that his plan was to have police kill him.

A man on trial this week for pointing a shotgun at officers and discharging the gun, told an investigator he had no memory of leading them on high speed chase or being shot.