Trish Mehaffey

A former Solon High choir instructor was charged Friday for sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of two teenage students at different time periods, going back to 2009.

Two Cedar Rapids teens charged in the April 2026 shooting on the Pedestrian Mall in Iowa City will have a joint trial Jan. 26, 2027. Both will claim self-defense.

Two Cedar Rapids teens charged in the April 2026 shooting on the Pedestrian Mall in Iowa City will have a joint trial Jan. 26, 2027. Both will claim self-defense.

Iowa agricultural manufacturing company Universal Industries, based in Cedar Falls, won one of the largest business-dispute judgments in state history with a $21.38 million award in a ‘copycat’ belt conveyor case.

Police say a Cedar Rapids father started a car chase with the mother of his child after she took the child from him at Jim’s Foods. One of the mother’s passengers then pointed a gun at the father’s car. The parents are charged with child endangerment and the passenger is charged with assault.

A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for distributing fentanyl. He has previous convictions for drug-related offenses, armed robbery and assault.

Iowa agricultural manufacturing company Universal Industries, based in Cedar Falls, won $21.38 million award in a belt conveyor case.

The fired principal of Cedar Rapids Prep charter school received a deferred judgment and probation for harrassment of woman. He threatened to “slit” her throat and harrassed her with threatening phone calls.

An Iowa City man was charged with attempted burglary and other offenses after he took a hammer and tried to break into others rooms at a nonprofit residential living facility.

Sentence comes on top of 25 years in prison in crash that injured woman, terminated her pregnancy