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. 4, 2017 4:49 pm3111d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Forest City man convicted last year of payroll tax fraud is facing new federal charges for …
News May. 4, 2017 1:31 pm3112d ago
IOWA CITY – An Iowa City man set to be retried this month in the fatal shooting of landlord John …
News May. 10, 2017 5:25 pm3105d ago
MARENGO – A co-worker and friend of Cora Okonski testified Wednesday that Okonski was afraid her fiancé, Tait Purk, was …
News May. 2, 2017 8:30 pm3113d ago
MARENGO — On Palm Sunday in April 2000, Cora Okonski argued with her fiancé about money when it turned physical and …
News May. 1, 2017 9:55 pm3114d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Former offenders say it just takes a little support, even if it’s something like clothes or a …
News Apr. 28, 2017 2:07 pm3118d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Dubuque man was sentenced Wednesday to more than two years in federal prison on a drug …
News Apr. 27, 2017 11:50 pm3118d ago
Before they went home last Saturday, lawmakers quickly amended the state’s gun permit law after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled …
News Apr. 26, 2017 10:08 pm3119d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Solon man pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday …
News Apr. 24, 2017 8:29 pm3121d ago
Federal prosecutors announced Monday during a news conference that 17 men have been recently charged with gun crimes as a …
News Apr. 24, 2017 6:40 pm3121d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids police officer Lucas Jones says he did not order his K-9 officer to ‘kill” Jerime …
Podcasts Jun. 7, 2017 6:55 pm3077d ago
This installment of On the Record talks about a 2014 double homicide in Cedar Rapids. Kendu Petties, 33, was convicted …
News Apr. 23, 2017 7:00 am3123d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — When a Linn County jury last year acquitted a man accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl …
News Apr. 21, 2017 6:57 pm3124d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A man who threatened to kill a Cedar Rapids woman was convicted by a jury Friday, following …
News Apr. 21, 2017 6:50 pm3124d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Roger Alexander said he never thought he would have to know what it was like to lose …
News Apr. 20, 2017 8:05 pm3125d ago
IOWA CITY — A man, who testified by phone from a federal prison in Indiana, said he wasn’t asked by …

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