Trish Mehaffey

A Grundy Center man convicted last month for killing Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Jim Smith is asking the court for a new trial based on lack of evidence to prove first-degree murder and two other charges. A jury found him guilty of murder and other charges after two hours of deliberation last month.

County attorney’s office opened 164 truancy cases in past year, successfully resolving 56 of the cases.

An Iowa City man, who helped organize Black Lives Matter protests, pleaded guilty Tuesday to lesser charges for injuring police officers by shining laser beams in their eyes during 2020 protest after George Floyd’s death.

A Georgia man, who punched a TSA officer after he was stopped at The Eastern Iowa Airport security checkpoint for concealing marijuana and nearly $38,000 cash in his luggage, was sentenced to two months in federal prison.

A Jones County woman propelled across a highway from a mailbox pipe bomb recalls the trauma 20 years later. Luke Helder, a Wisconsin college student charged with planting the bombs in five states in 2002, remains incompetent to stand trial and committed to a federal mental facility.

Prosecutors amended a first-degree murder charge to voluntary manslaughter for a Cedar Rapids man who shot another man three times during a fight.

Judge denies moving trial out of Linn Co. for 21-year-old charged with killing his parents and sister.

One of the Cedar Rapids men accused in the deadly nightclub shooting won’t go to trial until next year. Timothy Rush, who is charged with murder and 15 other charges, is accused of shooting girlfriend and injuring 6 others.

One of the Fairfield teens charged with killing a Spanish teacher wants a judge to suppress his statements made to police and to move his trial out of Jefferson County.

A 27-year-old Cedar Rapids man pleaded to sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl in two incidents. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Cedar Rapids man on probation for robbery and gun offenses has now been charged with another gun charge and police say he is connected to several shots fired incidents that have terrorized neighbors for months.

A judge in Linn and Johnson county says he has no idea why he was included among 963 Americans who are permanently banned from entering Russia. Judge Patrick Grady has never visited the country.

Judge sets $1.5 million bail for Cedar Rapids man charged with killing two men within 24 hours. Police haven’t provided possible motive for the fatal shootings.

A local nonprofit, Central Furniture Rescue, that helps people transitioning from homelessness to a permanent home is having an open house and ribbon cutting for its new “forever home” later this month.

The Cedar Rapids man was charged with two fatal shootings from January that happened within 24 hours of the other. The suspect was arrested in Davenport by U.S. Marshals task force and other law enforcement.