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 Nov. 2, 2017 5:58 pm2998d ago
IOWA CITY – A judge ruled Thursday to move the murder trial of Lamar Wilson out of Johnson County, but …
News Nov. 1, 2017 5:44 pm2999d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man, convicted of child pornography in 2009, pleaded guilty Wednesday to another charge of …
News Nov. 1, 2017 5:17 pm3000d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A lawsuit was filed last week by the mother of a 12-year-old boy diagnosed with cerebral palsy …
News Oct. 27, 2017 9:39 pm3004d ago
IOWA CITY – A judge wants more time to decide if an evidentiary hearing is necessary to determine if an …
News Oct. 26, 2017 4:01 pm3006d ago
IOWA CITY – A man charged in the fatal August shooting on the Pedestrian Mall in Iowa City will ask …
News Oct. 25, 2017 6:18 pm3006d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Cedar Rapids man, who he said has the ‘worst criminal …
Government & Politics Oct. 24, 2017 7:13 pm3007d ago
A class action suit filed by a stockholder claims the proposed acquisition of Rockwell Collins by United Technologies Corp. has …
News Oct. 24, 2017 11:02 am3008d ago
IOWA CITY – The trial for a man accused of killing an Iowa City cabdriver in June will start April …
News Jan. 11, 2022 12:24 pm1468d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The mother of a Marion man charged with killing his girlfriend, led police to a green utility …
News Oct. 20, 2017 8:09 pm3011d ago
A Davenport man was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in federal prison for illegally possessing a gun and cocaine. Lorenzo …
News Oct. 20, 2017 6:44 pm3011d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge ruled Friday that the trial for a man charged with vehicular homicide in a fatal …
News Oct. 19, 2017 7:12 pm3012d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge will allow the videotaped interviews of three children, who were sexually abused by a 15-year-old …
News Oct. 18, 2017 6:11 pm3013d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The last defendant in a large-scale ice methamphetamine trafficking ring in Eastern Iowa was sentenced Wednesday to …
News Oct. 18, 2017 6:01 pm3013d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Minnesota man, who has racked up more offenses that impact prison time than a judge had …
News Oct. 17, 2017 11:23 pm3014d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden says he believes in second chances but at some point, ‘it’s …

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