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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
Living May. 5, 2013 6:30 am4573d ago
[naviga:h3 align=”LEFT”]VIDEO: Life in Postville, five years later POSTVILLE – Community members say life may never be back to “normal,” …
Living May. 5, 2013 6:28 am4573d ago
Consuelo Vega Nava looks down at her shifting feet, saying it was difficult to go back to that time in …
Living May. 5, 2013 6:26 am4573d ago
The immigration process is slow-moving, as immigration attorney Sonia Parras Konrad knows all too well, but she hopes reform is …
Crime & Courts May. 3, 2013 2:12 pm4575d ago
Former Agriprocessors manager Hosam Amara pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court to 27 charges involving illegal immigration, after fighting …
May. 2, 2013 4:45 pm4576d ago
A Guatemalan man who was deported in the 2008 Agriprocessors immigration raid pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to illegal …
News Apr. 26, 2013 4:19 pm4582d ago
A trial for a West Branch man, who was granted a new trial last year after being convicted in the …
Crime & Courts Apr. 24, 2013 12:21 pm4584d ago
Assistant Federal Public Defender Jane Kelly was confirmed Wednesday by the U.S. Senate as an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals …
Crime & Courts Apr. 24, 2013 9:52 am4584d ago
A Clarence man found out this week that driving to his sentencing may not have been a good idea in …
Crime & Courts Apr. 23, 2013 11:56 am4585d ago
A Cedar Rapids man was charged Tuesday in Linn County District Court with five different convenience store robberies committed within …
Crime & Courts Apr. 19, 2013 3:28 pm4589d ago
A Costa Rican man convicted for harboring illegal workers by employing them as roofers in Iowa and money laundering was …
Crime & Courts Apr. 19, 2013 11:48 am4589d ago
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Assistant Federal Public Defender Jane Kelly is expected to get a vote by the …
Apr. 17, 2013 3:42 pm4591d ago
A Lansing man who threatened to kill an Allamakee County Sheriff’s deputy in 2011 and made hundreds of other harassing …
Apr. 17, 2013 1:44 pm4591d ago
A Pocahontas couple were sentenced Wednesday to federal prison for bank robbery and related charges. Jeffrey, 48, and Roxena, 40, …
Crime & Courts Apr. 16, 2013 11:25 am4592d ago
Two Central City men were charged Tuesday with first-degree arson for an apartment fire last October which investigators say started …
Crime & Courts Apr. 9, 2013 1:25 pm4599d ago
The murder trials for Isaiah Sweet and Brandon Ahlers, accused of killing Janet and Richard Sweet last year in Manchester, …


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