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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 Nov. 7, 2016 3:51 pm3290d ago
A federal judge once again called a former Marion investment broker an ‘unrepentant flim-flam artist” when she sentenced him for …
News Nov. 4, 2016 5:37 pm3293d ago
The operator of Black Diamond Kennel, who had numerous violations of animal protection regulations, was sentenced in federal court on …
News Nov. 4, 2016 12:01 pm3293d ago
MARION – A former employee of the Linn-Mar Community School District admitted to police that he sent a 17-year-old student …
Crime & Courts Dec. 30, 2021 3:16 pm1411d ago
The former Washington High School substitute teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student filed a written not …
News Nov. 3, 2016 5:28 pm3294d ago
A Cedar Rapids man, who tried to escape police when authorities found him in Illinois for shooting a man in …
News Nov. 3, 2016 5:00 pm3294d ago
A man charged in July for assaulting a deputy by tossing a milk carton filled with urine at him is …
News Nov. 1, 2016 6:31 pm3296d ago
A federal judge is sending a former Hiawatha man, convicted in 2009 for hiring a hit man to kill his …
News Oct. 31, 2016 9:17 pm3296d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Ali Al Herz admitted to a federal judge Monday that smuggling guns to Lebanon was wrong and …
News Oct. 28, 2016 11:53 pm3299d ago
DAVENPORT – Travis Standlee had no reaction Friday as a judge read the guilty verdict for a lesser charge of …
News Oct. 28, 2016 1:16 pm3300d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The Iowa Middle School Mock Trial regional competition comes back to the Linn County Courthouse on Saturday …
News Oct. 27, 2016 9:23 pm3300d ago
Travis Standlee testified Thursday during his first-degree murder trial that Sharon Mead was sleeping but alive when he left her …
News Oct. 27, 2016 10:15 am3301d ago
The prosecution continues its case at 9 a.m. Thursday in the second murder trial of Travis Standlee, a homeless man …
News Oct. 26, 2016 8:15 pm3301d ago
DAVENPORT – A convicted federal inmate testified Wednesday that Travis Standlee admitted to him that he had killed Sharon Mead …
News Oct. 26, 2016 9:28 am3302d ago
The prosecutor continues its case at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the second murder trial of Travis Standlee, a homeless man …
News Oct. 25, 2016 7:43 pm3302d ago
DAVENPORT – A homeless couple was drinking down by the Cedar River on a chilly September night last year when …

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