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
Crime & Courts Dec. 30, 2021 3:11 pm1480d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge on Monday agreed with another judge’s ruling that allowed prosecutors to change a misdemeanor charge …
News Nov. 20, 2016 3:00 pm3346d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — The recidivism rates of probationers and parolees in the six-county 6th Judicial District are the lowest in …
News Nov. 19, 2016 6:30 am3347d ago
For the first time in years, Dawn Humphries Ware says she has slept with few nightmares about the man she …
News Nov. 17, 2016 6:38 pm3349d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – When asked by a judge Thursday if he wanted to make a statement before sentencing, Travis Standlee …
News Nov. 16, 2016 4:51 pm3350d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A judge has decided to move the sexual exploitation trial of Mary Beth Haglin, a former Washington …
News Nov. 14, 2016 7:00 pm3352d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 19-year-old who shot another man during a robbery over a drug deal last year was sentenced …
News Nov. 14, 2016 5:16 pm3352d ago
A Cedar Rapids man, convicted in 2009 of sexual assault and burglary, asked a judge Monday for a new trial …
News Jan. 13, 2023 2:03 pm1101d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A lawyer for Mary Beth Haglin, a former Washington High substitute teacher accused of having a sexual …
News Nov. 9, 2016 9:34 pm3357d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man accused of robbing a cabdriver, who was killed the same night in 2011, …
Campaigns & Elections Nov. 9, 2016 5:43 pm3357d ago
All eight judges up for retention in Iowa’s 6th Judicial District were retained Tuesday with approval from at least 75 …
News Nov. 9, 2016 11:42 am3357d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal judge Tuesday sentenced three Dubuque men on firearms counts – and two of them also …
News Nov. 7, 2016 10:06 pm3359d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A federal jury found partially in favor of a man who sued two Cedar Rapids police officers …
News Nov. 7, 2016 4:32 pm3359d ago
A Maquoketa man who conspired to distribute a mixture containing heroin and an opioid-related drug to one person who died …
News Nov. 7, 2016 3:51 pm3359d 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 pm3362d ago
The operator of Black Diamond Kennel, who had numerous violations of animal protection regulations, was sentenced in federal court on …

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