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 Sep. 23, 2015 3:14 pm3701d ago
TOLEDO — Kerry O’Clair Jefferson’s best friend described her friend’s marriage with Dustin Jefferson as one of love and violence …
News Sep. 22, 2015 9:43 pm3702d ago
TOLEDO — There is no dispute that Ginger Jefferson killed Kerry O’Clair Jefferson on Sept. 25, 2013, but the evidence …
News Sep. 22, 2015 3:38 pm3702d ago
‘On the Record’ this week discusses drunk driving with guest Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden. Vander Sanden dicusses Steven …
News Sep. 22, 2015 11:19 am3702d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Crawfordsville bank director has been charged with embezzling over $800,000 from the company and will plead guilty …
News Sep. 21, 2015 12:59 pm3703d ago
TAMA – Jury selection began Monday morning for a Tama County man accused of killing his wife, or assisting his …
News Sep. 19, 2015 11:31 am3705d ago
Federal authorities are looking for two men charged with unlawfully possessing firearms who also were at a house where a …
News Sep. 18, 2015 10:19 pm3706d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man who has a record 16 drunken driving convictions and numerous violations of driving …
News Sep. 18, 2015 9:38 pm3706d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Facing the unusual situation of detaining a young teen accused of killing another young teen, Linn County …
News Sep. 18, 2015 5:55 pm3706d ago
Sy’Rai Flowers, 6, said in a victim’s impact statement Friday that ‘losing my daddy when I was 4 hurt me …
News Sep. 17, 2015 8:31 pm3707d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Newly unsealed court records assert that four men facing marijuana and gun charges were seen by a …
News Sep. 15, 2015 7:13 pm3709d ago
President Obama nominated Fifth Judicial District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to serve as the next federal judge in the Southern …
News Sep. 15, 2015 5:42 pm3709d ago
A judge gave an 18-year-old who received probation last week for sexually abusing a 4-year-old in Floyd County a deferred …
News Sep. 14, 2015 9:50 pm3710d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The Linn County Attorney’s Office and Cedar Rapids police continue to investigate the 2014 double homicide of …
News Sep. 12, 2015 4:04 pm3712d ago
IOWA CITY – An Iowa City man who stabbed his wife multiple times with a piece of broken glass last year …
News Sep. 11, 2015 9:22 pm3713d ago
TAMA – The retrial of a Tama County man charged in the fatal stabbing of his wife last year will …

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