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. 1, 2015 11:59 am3723d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man who was found with a loaded handgun in July pleaded guilty Monday in …
News Sep. 1, 2015 12:00 pm3723d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Reinbeck man, indicted last week in federal court on child pornography charges, was released with conditions …
News Aug. 28, 2015 10:49 pm3727d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – An Ely man set to go to trial next week instead pleaded Friday to firearms and drug …
News Aug. 28, 2015 7:31 pm3727d ago
A Cedar Rapids police investigator testified during a hearing Friday that Bobbie Little told him in June 2014 that he …
News Aug. 27, 2015 10:28 pm3728d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Linn County jury deliberated only about an hour Thursday before finding a Cedar Rapids man guilty …
News Aug. 26, 2015 2:28 pm3729d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — A judge on Wednesday denied a motion by Matthew Robbins, being retried next week on federal firearm …
News Aug. 25, 2015 6:17 pm3730d ago
A 21-year-old Cedar Rapids man who robbed and threatened a man with a gun in 2014 was sentenced to a …
News Aug. 25, 2015 1:45 pm3730d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former police officer and disbarred lawyer, who an Iowa Supreme Court justice called ‘Dr. Jekyll and …
News Aug. 24, 2015 4:37 pm3731d ago
Being on the run for setting fire to a Texas legislator’s car wasn’t enough trouble for Michael Patrick Wagner, he …
News Aug. 24, 2015 2:37 pm3731d ago
WATERLOO – Waterloo is the target of five ongoing federal lawsuits asserting its police have used excessive force and violated …
News Aug. 24, 2015 5:01 pm3731d ago
A grieving mother displayed a photo of her son in a casket during a February sentencing of a man who …
News Aug. 21, 2015 5:56 pm3734d ago
A 17-year-old was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for shooting into a southwest side apartment last November in …
News Aug. 20, 2015 1:52 pm3735d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids man who led police on a high-speed chase in February, crashing into a school …
News Aug. 19, 2015 7:23 pm3736d ago
A colleague and former law clerk recall U.S. District Senior Judge Donald Eugene O’Brien as an ‘extraordinary person” who strived …
News Aug. 19, 2015 7:22 pm3736d ago
Sixth Judicial District judges appointed Assistant Linn County Attorney Jason Burns as the new district associate judge in Johnson County …

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