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
Podcasts Aug. 16, 2017 8:45 am3008d ago
This week’s On the Record talks about the Iowa’s Safe Haven law, a juvenile that court officials are trying to …
News Aug. 16, 2017 1:42 pm3007d ago
TAMA – A 6th Judicial District judge overturned the first-degree murder conviction of Tait Purk on Monday, ruling the verdict …
News Aug. 15, 2017 1:35 pm3008d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 16-year-old girl, who in a violent outburst sliced the neck of a Four Oaks treatment center …
News Aug. 14, 2017 8:15 pm3009d ago
As court officials debate where to put a 16-year-old Johnson County girl who slashed a treatment center employee, Iowa’s new …
News Aug. 13, 2017 9:08 am3011d ago
IOWA CITY – A Davenport woman, who left her newborn boy in a trash can at the University of Iowa …
News Aug. 10, 2017 3:31 pm3013d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Federal prosecutors this week asked a judge to order the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to confiscate more …
News Aug. 9, 2017 12:14 pm3015d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Dubuque man was convicted Monday in federal court for robbing a Maquoketa bank in March. Dante …
News Aug. 6, 2017 12:43 am3018d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge on Friday denied a motion to dismiss the charge against a Marion teacher accused of …
News Aug. 6, 2017 12:49 am3018d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to five years probation for making a pipe bomb that exploded …
News Aug. 7, 2017 4:57 pm3016d ago
IOWA CITY – A juvenile court hearing Thursday on where to place a 16-year-old girl convicted of assaulting a residential …
News Aug. 3, 2017 8:04 pm3020d ago
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley announced Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee approved two nominees to serve as Iowa’s U.S. attorneys. …
News Aug. 3, 2017 10:43 am3021d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge sentenced a Lebanese man Wednesday to nearly five years in prison for negotiating a …
News Aug. 2, 2017 3:15 pm3021d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The former general manager of Linn Co-op Oil Co. in Marion was sentenced Tuesday to five years …
News Aug. 2, 2017 9:09 am3022d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge ruled last week that the trial for a Marion teacher, accused of failing to report …
News Aug. 2, 2017 8:15 am3022d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The news of significant federal budget cuts to legal aid back in 1996 provoked the ire of …

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