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 Dec. 19, 2017 10:36 am2882d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden was recently elected to serve as the president-elect of the Iowa …
News Dec. 18, 2017 5:31 pm2883d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Former reality TV star Chris Soules will claim diminished capacity based on an existing medical condition as …
News Dec. 18, 2017 12:50 pm2883d ago
IOWA CITY – A lawyer for Lamar Wilson, charged in a fatal shooting on the Iowa City Ped Mall in …
News Dec. 15, 2017 7:53 pm2886d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge on Friday reset the trial to May 7 for a Hiawatha man charged with killing …
News Dec. 15, 2017 2:45 pm2886d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A lawyer defending Quarzone Martin, charged in fatal shooting of one man and injuring another, grilled the …
News Dec. 13, 2021 2:44 pm1427d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A man testified Thursday his friend Andrew Meeks never got back up after he was shot by …
News Dec. 13, 2017 5:27 pm2888d ago
Opening statements in the trial for a Cedar Rapids man accused of fatally shooting one man and injuring another man …
News Dec. 12, 2017 7:26 pm2889d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Jury selection continues Wednesday for the man accused of fatally shooting Andrew Meeks and injuring another man …
News Dec. 11, 2017 5:18 pm2890d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who led a heroin ring for many years in Cedar Rapids known as ‘We the …
Living Dec. 11, 2017 2:06 pm2890d ago
WILLIAMSBURG – It’s that time of year when folks come from all over Iowa County and beyond to see a …
News Dec. 13, 2021 2:45 pm1427d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge has ruled that prosecutors cannot use evidence from a September police interview with murder defendant …
News Dec. 8, 2017 9:10 pm2893d ago
TOLEDO – After a judge last summer disregarded a jury’s verdict of first-degree murder in the April 2000 death of …
News Feb. 28, 2023 9:04 am986d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A police investigator testified Wednesday that Quarzone Martin, accused in the fatal shooting of one man and …
News Dec. 5, 2017 4:50 pm2896d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man, who a judge said had the ‘worst criminal history” he had ever seen, …
News Dec. 4, 2017 4:11 pm2897d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Waterloo man who stole a gun from a licensed firearms dealer and then hid it in …

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