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. 1, 2017 4:04 pm2900d ago
MARENGO – A judge ruled Friday to suspend court proceedings for a woman, accused of fatally shooting a Monroe truck …
News Nov. 30, 2017 8:17 pm2901d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Police have arrested two people in the Sept. 30, 2016, fatal stabbing of Christopher Arteberry Jr. in …
News May. 6, 2022 12:42 pm1283d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge this week denied a man, accused of sexually abusing a child, access to the child’s …
News Nov. 29, 2017 4:43 pm2902d ago
INDEPENDENCE – A woman accused of killing her ex-husband pleaded not guilty Tuesday and her first-degree murder trial was set …
News Nov. 29, 2017 1:47 pm2902d ago
MARENGO – A woman charged with killing a Monroe truck driver at an Interstate 80 rest stop near Victor in …
News Nov. 28, 2017 5:13 pm2903d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former Cedar Rapids man, who deceived some church congregations and others in the community with false …
News Nov. 28, 2017 5:57 pm2903d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The Marion Independent Community School District has paid parents of three Starry Elementary students $600,000 each to …
News Nov. 25, 2017 11:18 am2906d ago
DES MOINES – One Cedar Rapids lawyer was elected to the Iowa Association for Justice board, and two others – …
News Nov. 22, 2017 2:10 pm2909d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal jury on Wednesday found a Waterloo man guilty of sending threatening tweets to U.S. Sen. …
News Nov. 21, 2017 6:02 pm2910d ago
INDEPENDENCE – Prosecutors filed a motion Tuesday saying ‘Bachelor” star Chris Soules, who crashed his vehicle into a tractor that …
News Nov. 21, 2017 6:14 pm2910d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Federal Bureau of Investigation agents testified Tuesday that a Waterloo man admitted to sending three tweets ‘that …
News Jan. 11, 2022 3:32 pm1398d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Kenyan national who had been living in Cedar Rapids was convicted by a federal jury Monday …
News Nov. 20, 2017 3:02 pm2911d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Lois Webb told the man who struck her sister in the head and left her to die …
News Nov. 17, 2017 3:58 pm2914d ago
IOWA CITY – With new lawyers representing him, a man accused of fatally shooting an Iowa City cabdriver in June …
News Nov. 16, 2017 9:43 pm2915d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A man charged in the fatal shooting of Andrew Meeks Jr. on July 2 will claim self-defense, …

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