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. 12, 2018 9:22 pm2827d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The trial of a man charged with vehicular homicide in a crash that killed two teens in …
Education Feb. 12, 2018 3:41 pm2827d ago
The Marion Independent School District and teacher Diane Graham face yet another lawsuit from a parent of a Starry Elementary …
Crime & Courts Feb. 9, 2018 9:17 pm2830d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A tip sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children led to a Butler County …
Crime & Courts Feb. 9, 2018 5:19 pm2830d ago
IOWA CITY -A judge on Friday set a hearing for later this month to determine if an Iowa City man …
Government & Politics Feb. 8, 2018 7:18 pm2831d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The Iowa County Attorneys Association is proposing three new laws that would expand protections for children and …
Crime & Courts Feb. 7, 2018 8:20 pm2832d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A trial for a man, accused of fatally shooting a woman who confronted him about her stolen …
Crime & Courts Feb. 7, 2018 8:19 pm2832d ago
An Iowa City man convicted Wednesday of fatally shooting a man and injuring two others last August on the downtown …
Crime & Courts Feb. 6, 2018 4:53 pm2833d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The murder trial for a 17-year-old accused of shooting a 21-year-old man and injuring another teen in …
Crime & Courts Feb. 5, 2018 4:33 pm2834d ago
DES MOINES – The jury in the Lamar Wilson murder trial will continue its deliberations Tuesday in the Iowa City …
News Feb. 3, 2018 12:00 pm2836d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – When Harold Denton retired as the Linn County attorney in 2010, after working 35 years in the …
Crime & Courts Feb. 2, 2018 6:10 pm2837d ago
TOLEDO – A 19-year-old woman said in court this week she was never the same 13-year-old girl after being sexually …
Crime & Courts Feb. 2, 2018 9:24 pm2837d ago
DES MOINES – The jury will continue its deliberations Monday in the first-degree murder trial that came out of the …
Crime & Courts Feb. 1, 2018 10:08 pm2838d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden said Thursday no prosecutor wants to see an innocent person in …
Crime & Courts Feb. 1, 2018 7:46 pm2838d ago
TOLEDO – The toddler left behind when Cora Okonski was murdered in 2000 still looks for her after all these …
Crime & Courts Jan. 31, 2018 7:12 pm2839d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Arizona man who sued Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden and the county for ‘wrongful arrest” …

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