Trish Mehaffey

A Halloween display at the front entrance of the Anamosa State Penitentiary was removed Friday after The Gazette reached out to the Iowa Department of Corrections for comment about it.

Iowa faces challenges with growing its population, creating job opportunities for immigrants and expanding high-speed broadband into rural areas.

Kiana McCune recounts hearing gunshots outside her apartment the day her 15-year-old son, Michael McCune, was fatally shot in a “targeted” attack on Feb. 18. in Cedar Rapids. She told a judge, during one of the teen’s juvenile adjudication hearing, that she “died that day with my son.”

An Ohio man wanted in a fatal shooting that happened in an Ohio newspaper’s parking lot was arrested Thursday in Cedar Rapids.

An Illinois man was sentenced to 25 years for a fatal crash that killed a 23-year-old Cedar Rapids man. His driver’s license was also revoked for six years. Tyler S. Lee also is charged in Illinois with murder for a 2017 fatal shooting in Winnebago County.

Story County prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss a misdemeanor charge for an Iowa State football player because they missed indictment deadline.

The man, who held a knife to a woman’s neck, choked her and tried to smother her with a pillow as he sexually assaulted her, pleaded to third-degree sex abuse and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A national parent’s advocacy group can go forward with it’s claim that the Linn Mar Community School District’s transgender policy to “respect” student’s gender identity violates freedom of speech. The policy is too vague, the court ruled.

An Illinois man will plead guilty next week to one of his charges from a 2021 fatal crash on I-380. He was intoxicated and crashed his pickup truck into an SUV, killing 23-year-old David Nguyen of Cedar Rapids, according to court documents.

A Storm Lake man accused of kidnapping his wife by gunpoint and planning to take her to Chicago last December was convicted Sept. 26 for assaulting another inmate in the Johnson County Jail in July. His trial for kidnapping is set for Oct. 24.

One of the teens accused of fatally shooting 16-year-old Michael Alexander McCune in Cedar Rapids in February is asking a judge to move his first-degree murder and a theft case to juvenile court, but his previous juvenile court officer said it wasn’t in the “best interest” of the teen or the community.

A Cedar Rapids woman, charged with trying to kill a man by slashing his throat on Sunday, had threatened to kill him earlier this year when she broke into his home, records show.

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.