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 Jan. 18, 2019 11:20 am2487d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man, accused of trying to hire a ‘hit man” to kill a University of …
Crime & Courts Jan. 15, 2019 6:49 pm2490d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 43-year-old Cedar Rapids man faces up to 35 years in prison after being convicted of sexually …
Crime & Courts Jan. 14, 2019 9:40 am2491d ago
Adam Santi said he was frustrated that April morning when his friend Jon hadn’t responded to his text for an …
Government & Politics Jan. 10, 2019 8:18 pm2495d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – There’s no sign of a government shutdown at the federal courthouse here in the Northern District of …
Crime & Courts Jan. 10, 2019 8:05 pm2495d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Ottumwa man, who a prosecutor called a ‘danger to the community,” was sentenced Thursday to seven …
Crime & Courts Jan. 9, 2019 7:19 pm2496d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge denied a protective order Wednesday that would have kept a Marion man from being in …
Government & Politics Jan. 9, 2019 7:30 pm2496d ago
Iowa’s controversial ‘ag-gag” law, which makes undercover investigations by journalists, food safety and labor advocates at slaughterhouses and factory farms …
Crime & Courts Jan. 7, 2019 6:55 pm2498d ago
IOWA CITY – A judge Monday denied another trial delay for a man charged in the fatal shooting of a …
Crime & Courts Jan. 7, 2019 6:11 pm2498d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The last defendant pleaded Monday in a marijuana robbery that led to the fatal shooting of a …
Crime & Courts Jan. 4, 2019 5:32 pm2501d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – It’s not unusual for a county prosecutor to handle more than one pending homicide case within a …
Crime & Courts Jan. 4, 2019 6:07 pm2501d ago
IOWA CITY – The mother of an Iowa City cabdriver fatally shot in 2017 said she is glad the ‘monster” …
Crime & Courts Dec. 30, 2018 1:24 pm2506d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A lawsuit accusing the city of Cedar Rapids of negligence, filed after a police officer shot and …
Crime & Courts Dec. 26, 2018 4:33 pm2510d ago
A national survey that mapped out the most common federal drug offenses and the average prison sentences for them found …
Crime & Courts Dec. 25, 2018 4:38 pm2511d ago
MARENGO – Cleanliness and innovation might not be words that come to mind when thinking of an Iowa jail, but …
Crime & Courts Dec. 21, 2018 8:55 am2515d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — A 64-year-old Manchester man was charged Thursday in the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko, 39 years …

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