Trish Mehaffey

Chicago man charged with shooting deputy after robbing Coggon convenience story asks court to move trial because of pretrial publicity and sever a charge to avoid prejudice because he is a felon.

Trial reset to April 5, 2022, for Alexander Ken Jackson, a 21-year-old University of Iowa student charged with fatally shooting his parents and sister at their northeast Cedar Rapids home in June 2021.

Both of the judges recently appointed to the bench in Eastern Iowa grew up in rural counties and have experience as prosecutors.

An 84-year-old Illinois man serving a life sentence for killing an Independence police Officer Harold Pearce in 1956 died this week due to natural causes at the Iowa State Penitentiary.

Drew Blahnik’s sentencing is set for Dec. 17. He faces up to 57 years in prison.

Willard Chaiden Miller, one of the 16-year-olds charged with killing Fairfield High Spanish teacher Nohema Graber, wants his case moved to juvenile court. Prosecution argues because he is 16 and charged with murder, it’s excluded from juvenile jurisdiction.

He pleads to fraud charge, will be sentenced in April

A Cedar Rapids man, just before he was to be retried for fatally shooting Andrew Meeks in 2017, pleaded to lesser charges and was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison.

Sixth Judicial District Judge Mary Chicchelly was appointed to the Iowa Court of Appeals after being a finalist for the fifth time.

Jermaine Walker, 38, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for fatally shooting Wayne Jones over a pack of cigarettes argument in 2019.

Drew Blahnik, convicted of killing Chris Bagley in 2018, wants a new trial, claiming one of the jurors, a Marion bar manager, knew Bagley or Blahnik. Prosecutor says there’s no evidence, just an allegation of a bartender who didn’t totally recall what she said.

Trial for Cedar Rapids teen charged with stabbing parents with knife and ax is set for Feb. 8 in Linn County District Court.

Fairfield teens Jeremy Goodale and Willard Miller, accused of killing the Spanish language teacher at Fairfield High last month, will remain in jail under a $1 million cash only bail.

Arizona man who became combative on flight to Cedar Rapids and was vaping marijuana pleaded to possession and was sentenced to 2 years probation in federal court.

Iowa City man who sexually assaulted two girls, ages 9 and 12, in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He cursed at the judge and threatened the girls’ mother during the hearing.