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 May. 24, 2017 3:19 pm3091d ago
The courthouses in Linn and Johnson counties, as well as all courthouses and judicial branch offices across the state, will …
News May. 23, 2017 11:47 pm3092d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — As the buzzer sounds and more than 1,800 teens are passing through the halls at Kennedy High …
News May. 23, 2017 6:30 pm3092d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – On Tuesday, a judge told Marshaun Blackman he was taking a ‘leap of faith” by suspending a …
News May. 23, 2017 9:19 pm3092d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man convicted of having firearms as a felon was resentenced Tuesday to less federal …
News May. 22, 2017 6:28 pm3093d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Two more people were convicted last week in federal court for their roles in a fraud scheme …
News May. 16, 2017 5:09 pm3099d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — A Waterloo couple, charged in state court last year for bringing two Chicago teens to Iowa for …
News May. 13, 2017 3:38 pm3102d ago
Background In February. a Cedar Rapids man was charged with vehicular homicide for crashing into a stopped car on County …
News May. 12, 2017 3:16 pm3103d ago
IOWA CITY – John Versypt’s sister told the man who shot him in 2009 that he attempted to rob her …
News May. 11, 2017 5:32 pm3104d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — Two parents gave heart-wrenching accounts Thursday of how their 5-year-old daughters’ lives were ‘turned upside down’ after …
News Aug. 30, 2017 10:55 am2994d ago
MARENGO – It has been more than 17 years since Cora Okonski went missing from the Tama home she shared …
News May. 10, 2017 1:01 pm3106d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Dubuque man pleaded guilty this week in a fraud scheme in which elderly people were falsely …
News May. 8, 2017 8:07 pm3107d ago
MARENGO — Tait Purk took the stand Monday, saying more than once he didn’t kill his fiancée Cora Okonski and doesn’t …
News May. 5, 2017 6:37 pm3110d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A prosecutor is asking the court to consolidate two separate cases involving a mother and her son, …
News May. 5, 2017 2:39 pm3110d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A father already charged with child endangerment last year failed to appear in court Thursday on additional …
News May. 5, 2017 11:41 am3111d ago
IOWA CITY – Justin Marshall will plead guilty and be sentenced next week in the fatal shooting of landlord John …

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