Trish Mehaffey

Waypoint Housing Services is seeing large increase in those needing housing and emergency shelter. This last fiscal year went from serving around 3,000 to over 13,000.

Two prosecutors running for county attorneys in Linn and Johnson counties followed similar paths, taking on the toughest cases, in preparing themselves to lead the offices. Both Democrats run unopposed Nov. 8.

An Illinois man is charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in North Liberty. If convicted, he faces 25 years in prison.

Authorities say a Cedar Rapids man intentionally set fire to a residence, killing 15 animals including ducks, rabbits, dogs, fish and a snake.

A former account manager and vice president of Cedar Rapids Photo Copy Inc., is accused of charging thousands of dollars on company credit cards and rolling his negative car equity into a loan for a company car and refinancing it in his name.

A Coralville man charged with shooting a man in a downtown club in April wants to subpoena police records which may indicate he and victim were involved in previous shootings.

A Marion man who killed Chris Bagley in 2018 was sentenced to five more years, but this time it’s on a federal conviction for being a drug user in possession of a firearm.

A former Linn County reserve deputy sheriff was convicted Monday for child porn. According to a plea agreement, he possessed over 160,000 files on electronic devices found in his Marion home.

The Iowa State Bar Association released its judicial performance review to help guide voters on the retention of judges on the Nov. 8 ballot.

An Iowa City man pleaded to second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his wife, JoEllen Browning, 65, on April 5, 2019. Investigators say they determined his wife was killed because she was going to learn about him draining one of her savings accounts and taking out risky high-interest loans.

An Iowa City man will make a plea Wednesday in the 2019 fatal stabbing of his wife, JoEllen Browning, a UI Hospitals and Clinics budget director.

A Cedar Rapids teen who is accused of killing his parents last year will not have a trial this month. Prosecutors asked for a delay because they want to get an expert to counter the defense’s expert opinion which states the teen had diminished capacity.

A Cedar Rapids woman who claimed self-defense in fatal stabbing of boyfriend was found guilty of lesser charge last week. She faces 5 years for involuntary manslaughter.

Lawyers for a Manchester man who was convicted of killing Michelle Martinko in 1979 argued Friday during his appeal that his conviction should be overturned because police didn’t have a warrant when it retrieved his DNA from a straw in the trash.

A former Iowa City elementary school counselor, who had his sex abuse conviction overturned in 2016, was awarded $12 million in a lawsuit for negligence.