116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Trish Mehaffey
Reporter covering state and federal courts, and whatever legal issues come my way. I also provide live coverage of criminal trials on Twitter @tmehaffey and welcome comments and questions from readers during the trials. Outside of work I love movies, tennis and my Kansas State Wildcats! Go Cats! Stay informed with the Public Safety newsletter.
Latest Articles by Trish Mehaffey
Crime & Courts Oct. 21, 2020 8:39 am1914d ago
IOWA CITY — One of the three men charged with killing a man during a robbery in April will have …
Crime & Courts Oct. 19, 2020 4:09 pm1915d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The county’s first jury trial under coronavirus restrictions was a little ‘stressful” when held last week, a …
Crime & Courts Oct. 15, 2020 7:45 am1920d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Federal prosecutors have made gun-related crimes their priority for the last few years and this year is …
Crime & Courts Oct. 8, 2020 9:03 pm1926d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Marshalltown man was sentenced Wednesday to more than 19 years after his partner, an Ames woman, …
Crime & Courts Oct. 6, 2020 5:27 pm1928d ago
IOWA CITY – A judge has ruled that evidence of computer and phone searches of pornography and research information on …
Crime & Courts Oct. 2, 2020 8:18 pm1932d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A prosecutor is asking a judge to transfer a 14-year-old Ely boy, who was charged this week …
Government & Politics Oct. 19, 2020 5:52 pm1915d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Attorneys in the 6th Judicial District have endorsed the retention of all the seven district court judges …
Crime & Courts Sep. 30, 2020 11:37 pm1934d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – After a gunman last year targeted the vehicle her son was in, killing him and another teenager, …
News Sep. 30, 2020 7:00 am1935d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The murder trial for a Cedar Rapids man, accused of killing a man over a pack of …
Crime & Courts Sep. 29, 2020 4:14 pm1935d ago
DES MOINES – A Johnson County man has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for being part of …
News Sep. 28, 2020 3:02 pm1936d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former director of a Toledo day care convicted of embezzling thousands from the business was sentenced …
Government & Politics Sep. 28, 2020 8:23 pm1936d ago
IOWA CITY – Another Iowa judge has sided with President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, this time in a lawsuit brought …
Crime & Courts Sep. 25, 2020 6:27 pm1939d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Fayette County man who received hundreds of images and videos of child pornography was sentenced Friday …
Government & Politics Sep. 25, 2020 7:50 am1940d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – In an effort to move courts forward amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, district judges in Linn County …
Crime & Courts Sep. 24, 2020 9:25 pm1940d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former Cedar Rapids schools custodian was convicted Thursday of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl over a …

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