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 Oct. 5, 2016 9:00 pm3322d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man was sentenced to four years in federal prison Wednesday for possessing firearms by …
News Oct. 5, 2016 2:41 pm3323d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a Dubuque man, convicted of a hate crime for kicking and …
News Oct. 4, 2016 7:09 pm3324d ago
ALBURNETT – A pastor describes Scott B. Blackford as a ‘loving husband, awesome father and a pleasant man who was …
News Oct. 4, 2016 6:43 pm3324d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former clerk of Smokin Joe’s Tobacco and Liquor Outlet who stole more than $48,000 by ringing …
News Oct. 3, 2016 6:45 pm3325d ago
A 71-year-old man, serving a life sentence for the 1974 fatal shooting and sexual assault of a 17-year-old Cedar Rapids …
Weather Oct. 1, 2016 2:24 pm3327d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The Linn County Courthouse closing for only a week – compared to nearly four months in 2008 …
News Sep. 30, 2016 1:00 am3328d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man was charged Wednesday with threatening two men with a gun as they tried …
Weather Sep. 29, 2016 5:55 pm3329d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Numerous law enforcement vehicles have been lining up at the Cedar Rapids Masonic lodge downtown this week …
News Feb. 14, 2023 3:01 pm1000d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — Six teenagers sat in a car on the southeast side of Cedar Rapids Tuesday morning when a …
News Sep. 27, 2016 2:47 pm3331d ago
A director of a local non-profit who diverted over $114,000 in donations to support his ‘sex addiction” was sentenced last …
News Sep. 26, 2016 8:17 pm3332d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – June Dillon tears up as she talks about leaving her ‘kids,” Beaugard and Buddy, at Cedar Rapids …
News Sep. 23, 2016 8:59 pm3335d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A University of London professor testified about the gacaca courts of Rwanda, saying the lay judges of …
News Sep. 23, 2016 6:23 pm3335d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Rita Ursino Walker said Travis Standlee ‘maliciously strangled to death” her brother Raymond Ursino and then laid …
News Sep. 22, 2016 7:50 pm3336d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Homeland Security agent testified Thursday that several witnesses identified Gervais ‘Ken” Ngombwa as a member of …
News Sep. 21, 2016 7:15 pm3337d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Former Assistant Linn County Attorney Nicholas Scott was sworn in Wednesday as the new 6th Judicial Associate …

Daily Newsletters