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 Feb. 6, 2020 10:40 am2103d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — A judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors cannot use evidence and testimony to persuade a jury that a …
Crime & Courts Feb. 4, 2020 4:18 pm2104d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former Cedar Rapids nurse accused of taking pain medications from patients’ intravenous lines and injecting herself …
Crime & Courts Feb. 4, 2020 3:55 pm2104d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man was convicted Tuesday of sexual exploitation of children after authorities last year connected him …
Crime & Courts Feb. 4, 2020 8:37 pm2104d ago
DES MOINES – The man accused of killing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts on Tuesday was denied a review …
Crime & Courts Jan. 31, 2020 6:44 pm2108d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – It’s been more than a year since her brother died, but Sharon Bowers said Friday his death still …
Crime & Courts Jan. 31, 2020 3:57 pm2108d ago
DES MOINES – A 52-year-old Johnson County man, who was charged last year with four others in the sex trafficking …
Crime & Courts Jan. 30, 2020 3:53 pm2109d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former Cedar Rapids nurse will plead guilty next week in federal court to taking pain medications …
Crime & Courts Jan. 29, 2020 12:15 pm2111d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former Manchester nurse, who stole hydrocodone and morphine pills from her nursing home patients, was sentenced …
Crime & Courts Jan. 28, 2020 10:24 am2112d ago
IOWA CITY – A 20-year-old survivor of sexual assault said she was ‘stripped to my most vulnerable state” but now …
Crime & Courts Jan. 27, 2020 4:24 pm2112d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former Fairfax man, who was convicted of lesser charges in a 2008 fatal shooting in Cedar …
Crime & Courts Jan. 24, 2020 8:30 pm2115d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Jerry Burns, who is seeking to have key evidence against him kept out of his upcoming murder …
Crime & Courts Jan. 23, 2020 8:03 pm2116d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids man pleaded Thursday to a lesser charge in the sexual assault of a 22-year-old woman …
Crime & Courts Jan. 23, 2020 3:56 pm2116d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man who slammed his pregnant girlfriend into a wall and threatened to kill her was …
Crime & Courts Jan. 22, 2020 8:32 pm2117d ago
MONTEZUMA – A judge on Wednesday put a hold on the trial for the man accused of killing University of …
Crime & Courts Jan. 22, 2020 5:21 pm2117d ago
MARION – The former Marion police chief has been added to a lawsuit filed by a former custodian, who claims …

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