Trish Mehaffey

An Iowa man sentenced to 5 months in federal prison for filing false unemployment claims in New York and Maine. He used two checking accounts to receive funds and then would withdraw some for himself and some to send to others in the scheme.

Jury finds 38-year-old Robin A. Castillo Fuentes, of Coralville, guilty of 28 counts of lascivious conduct and indecent contact with a 12-year-old girl for over a year. He faces up to 44 years in prison.

Cedar Rapids man who was armed with gun and broke into his former girlfriend’s residence and then kidnapped and assaulted her was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Tyrell J. Gaston, sentenced to probation in a drug robbery that turned fatal for his cousin Andrew, said he wished he could go back and do things differently.

A former College Community School District bus driver was sentenced to 10 years for kidnapping with the intent to sexually abuse a 10-year-old girl.

The Camp Courageous annual pancake breakfast and open house will be from 8 a.m. to noon on Sunday.

Masks will continue to be optional in Iowa’s non-public and private schools after legal experts determined a restraining order issued last week on a law banning mask mandates applies only to public schools.

Food insecurity increased during pandemic, putting a spotlight on underlying causes of hunger. Fortunately, Iowa food banks and other organizations have been able to fill the need.

A fire-damaged house in Wellington Heights was finally demolished Thursday and will be replaced with a new, three-bedroom home that will be sold to a lower-income family. The house is being built by Hope Community Development Association.

A Cedar Rapids man and woman were sentenced to federal prison for robbing and killing a Marion man who went missing in 2014. Danielle Bush was sentenced to 10 years and William Yancey will serve 33 years.

Michael Dutcher pleaded guilty to all charges in the bludgeoning of a correctional officer and registered nurse at Anamosa State Penitentiary. He was sentenced to two life prison sentences and another 50 years for other charges.

An Iowa City mother said she felt numb when the Iowa Board of Parole announced its decision last Tuesday to give Lamar Wilson, 27, work release after serving only about three years of his 24-year sentence for killing her son, Kaleek Jones, 22, on the Ped Mall on Aug. 27, 2017.

A Cedar Rapids woman is charged with insurance fraud for submitting false medical claims to her insurance company. The claims totaled over $7,000.

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.