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
News Sep. 17, 2019 12:25 am2245d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The trial for a Manchester man accused of fatally stabbing 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in 1979 likely will …
Crime & Courts Sep. 13, 2019 8:09 pm2248d ago
DES MOINES – The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday suspended the license of a Cedar Rapids lawyer for violating rules …
Crime & Courts Sep. 13, 2019 9:56 pm2248d ago
DES MOINES – The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday overruled a Tama County magistrate’s order dismissing trespassing and drug charges …
Crime & Courts Sep. 13, 2019 1:43 am2249d ago
TIPTON – A Davenport motorcyclist is suing a former state trooper – whose testimony in other matters has been questioned …
Crime & Courts Sep. 12, 2019 12:11 am2250d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former janitor at Cornell College charged with covertly taking more than 100 photos of women basketball …
Crime & Courts Sep. 11, 2019 6:02 pm2250d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – An owner of a Marion company that provides energy-efficiency services pleaded guilty Wednesday to a light bulb …
Crime & Courts Sep. 11, 2019 5:24 pm2250d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man, who sold heroin to two people who nearly died, was sentenced Tuesday to …
Crime & Courts Sep. 10, 2019 10:21 pm2251d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man has been charged with first-degree murder in a shooting at the Pointe apartment …
Crime & Courts Sep. 9, 2019 11:13 pm2252d ago
In a special session Tuesday evening in Muscatine, the Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments in an appeal by Lamar …
Crime & Courts May. 27, 2022 11:51 am1262d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who federal agents say was a large-scale marijuana trafficker supplying drugs to Chris Bagley – …
Crime & Courts Sep. 6, 2019 1:56 pm2256d ago
Background Chris Bagley, 31, a husband and father of two, left his Walker home about 9 p.m. Dec. 13, 2018, …
Crime & Courts Sep. 5, 2019 9:07 pm2256d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former employee is suing Rockwell Collins, now Collins Aerospace, for discrimination, claiming supervisors told her in …
Crime & Courts Sep. 5, 2019 12:20 am2257d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former Iowa nurse who stole medications from her elderly patients at two Waterloo-area nursing homes has …
Crime & Courts Sep. 4, 2019 12:29 am2258d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge Tuesday sentenced a 19-year-old father, who caused his infant son’s brain injury, to five years …
Community Sep. 8, 2019 12:34 pm2254d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Verna Kuehl became a member of a ‘club” that she never signed up for when her daughter …

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