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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. 24, 2017 12:13 am2969d ago
IOWA CITY – A man accused of killing an Iowa City cabdriver in June, after much discussion with a judge …
Government & Politics Sep. 24, 2017 12:09 am2969d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Peter Deegan, Jr. was sworn in Thursday as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa. …
News Sep. 17, 2017 1:17 pm2975d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Nicholas Luerkens, who will be retried in the 2015 fatal stabbing of his former girlfriend, is asking …
News Sep. 14, 2017 9:38 pm2978d ago
A Tama County prosecutor, in an appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court, says 6th Judicial District Judge Mitchell Turner ‘abused …
News Sep. 14, 2017 7:27 pm2978d ago
IOWA CITY – A woman who was videotaped and photographed while being sexually abused said in a victim’s impact statement …
News Sep. 13, 2017 8:04 pm2979d ago
Debbie Erenberger had dinner with her husband Greg in Ely before she left to ‘dog-sit” for their daughter the weekend …
News Dec. 8, 2017 8:33 am2894d ago
This week’s On the Record highlights National Suicide Prevention Week, Sept. 10-16. This is a departure from the regular program …
News Sep. 13, 2017 10:25 am2980d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge this week ordered monitoring and home confinement for a Cedar Rapids man, charged with …
News Sep. 11, 2017 6:35 pm2981d ago
MARENGO – Lawyers for a Williamsburg man, accused of killing his girlfriend’s child, asked the court Monday to move his …
News Sep. 9, 2017 6:05 pm2983d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Elgin man was convicted last week in federal court for illegally possessing a gun while being …
News Sep. 7, 2017 11:40 am2985d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A father pleaded guilty to four counts of child endangerment and was sentenced to probation last week. …
News Sep. 7, 2017 8:58 am2986d ago
MARSHALLTOWN – A Cedar Rapids woman, who embezzled more than $10,000 over 10 years from a manufacturing company, has been …
News Sep. 6, 2017 12:48 pm2986d ago
IOWA CITY – The father of the newborn – left by his mother in a trash can at the University …
News Sep. 3, 2017 9:05 am2990d ago
Jurors are ‘perplexed and confused” over a judge’s decision last month to throw out their guilty verdict in the first-degree …
News Sep. 2, 2017 11:22 am2990d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge said Thursday a Cedar Rapids man charged in the robbery of a cabdriver, who …

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