Trish Mehaffey

Penny Galvin has led the Survivors’ Program, which helps families and friends who have lost loved ones to homicides and vehicular homicides, since 2009.

Howard T. Cones was sleeping under a picnic table in Poets Park when police dog, Ace, attacked him, leaving deep lacerations on his elbow.

Marion man will spend 1 year in federal prison for stealing pistol last year when he worked at Fleet Farm. The incident was captured on store video.

A judge ruled in favor of an Indiana man who asked the court not to combine his harassment case with his first-degree murder case. Prosecutors argued the harassment charge shows a motive for fatally shooting Tommy Curry, who was allegedly lured to his death by a “date,” n April 28.

Cedar County online predator sentenced to 10 years for child porn involving 13-year-old Minnesota girl, who he kidnapped and sexually assaulted last year.

Drew Wagner — convicted for holding down Chris Bagley as another man stabbed him to death in December 2018 — was sentenced Friday to 47 years in prison. He was given the maximum sentences on lesser charges.

Anamosa inmate, Thomas Woodard, pleaded guilty to two first-degree murder charges, and one each of attempted murder and second-degree kidnapping. He faces two life sentences without chance for parole.

Vehicular homicide trial for Urbana man who ran over woman in parking lot in 2019 is now reset to next year. Witnesses told police he rapidly accelerated in reverse, hitting and killing a Center Point woman.

Cedar Rapids man, who confessed to killing Dexter Meeks and trying to kill his brother in 2011, provided a false confession. He was in the Clinton County Jail at the time.

One of the Anamosa inmates, Thomas Allen Woodard, charged in bludgeoning a correctional officer and registered nurse in March, will plead Friday in Jones County.

“Not everything smells rotten but this stinks to it’s core, lawyer David O’Brien says after receiving a state patrol report that confirms dash cam video wasn’t activated in Colesburg man’s fatal motorcycle crash.

Federal judge sentences Iowa man to 10 years for cyberstalking a woman after she broke up with him. He started out sending her harassing texts and emails and then set up fake Facebook profiles about her with sexually explicit photos and information.

Drew Blahnik was convicted of the lesser charge of second-degree murder and two other charges in the fatal stabbing of Chris Bagley in 2018. He faces up to 54 years in prison.

After nearly three days of deliberations, the jury has reached a verdict in Drew Blahnik’s murder trial in the death of Chris Bagley.

An Anamosa prison inmate, charged with killing a prison officer and registered nurse, will not have a bench trial next week. He waived his speedy trial right Thursday and wants its reset to a later date.