Trish Mehaffey

The Iowa State Bar Association set up the hotline to help people with pandemic-related legal questions.

A Cedar Rapids man and woman identified in Walford double fatality on Wednesday. Leo Alan Ray and Stacey Lynn Watts, both 35, were in the Nissan Altima that crashed into a dump truck while fleeing from a deputy on Highway 151 north of Walford.

A 44-year-old Monticello man was identified by the Iowa State Patrol as being ejected during single-vehicle rollover crash on Sunday.

Aaron Hinke was sentenced to 3 years in prison for placing an improvised bomb behind a La Motte man’s woodshed. The homeowner’s 5-year-old daughter found the “Looney Tunes bomb.”

A New Mexico man sentenced to two years probation for flying a plane without a license. The plane had engine failure over Iowa and landed near Waterloo.

A Solon man accused of sexually abusing a child and a woman over a period of time has pleaded to lesser charges. He faces up to four years in prison but is asking for a deferred judgment.

A judge, following a bench trial in July, found an Iowa City man, who attempted to die by suicide by hitting another car in 2019, guilty of second-degree murder of a Texas man and other charges.

A Springville man is back in jail after new arrest for theft and eluding. He has 15 pending charges now in eight different cases.

He was converting “fuel filters” into illegal gun silencers.

Order requires masks in all courthouses across the state, regardless of an individual’s vaccination status.

Cedar Rapids man who hid multiple drugs in a Crown Royal bag tucked in his crotch area was sentenced to 3 years in federal prison.

A Chicago man living in Iowa City in 2019 was sentenced to over eight years in federal prison for distributing marijuana and possessing firearms.

Eleven family members gave heart wrenching victim impact statements about their loved ones — correctional officer Robert McFarland and nurse Lorena Schulte — during sentencing for Anamosa inmate, Thomas Woodard.

Live video plus tweets from reporter Trish Mehaffey, who is in Jones County District Court for the sentencing hearing of Thomas Woodard. Earlier this month, Woodard pleaded guilty on two counts of first-degree murder, and one count each of attempted murder and second-degree kidnapping for the March attacks on correctional officer Robert McFarland and prison nurse Lorena Schulte.

Marion man sentenced to 9 months in federal prison for bilking unemployment benefits from Arizona. He withdrew some of the funds in cash and used a Bitcoin ATM to send the funds to other participants in the scheme. He also kept some for himself.