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 Apr. 7, 2013 6:00 am4672d ago
A man convicted by a Linn County jury in February for stabbing his ex-girlfriend 16 times was sentenced to 10 …
Crime & Courts Sep. 29, 2022 2:00 pm1209d ago
Sixth Judicial District Judge Mary Chicchelly said during her investiture Friday that she couldn’t promise her former colleagues, lawyers, that …
Crime & Courts Apr. 4, 2013 4:07 pm4674d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 16-year-old is the fourth defendant charged in a drug robbery where one man was seriously injured …
News Apr. 4, 2013 3:00 pm4674d ago
A Marion man pleaded guilty Thursday to placing a video camera in the women’s restroom at a Cedar Rapids bar …
News Mar. 31, 2013 6:30 am4679d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The doctors of the new Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa Medical Pavilion want patients to walk into their 221,000-square-foot …
News Mar. 29, 2013 12:58 pm4681d ago
A Cedar Rapids man charged for investment fraud rants, making disparaging and insulting remarks, Friday for about 20 minutes to …
Crime & Courts Mar. 28, 2013 5:32 pm4681d ago
A Waterloo man was sentenced this week in Linn County District Court to 10 years in prison for crashing into …
Crime & Courts Mar. 28, 2013 4:48 pm4681d ago
A trial for a Central City man accused of killing a Cedar Rapids man last August was reset this week …
Local Government Mar. 25, 2013 3:30 pm4684d ago
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, recommended Monday that the White House nominate Kevin W. Techau for U.S. Attorney of the Iowa …
Crime & Courts Mar. 22, 2013 4:52 pm4687d ago
One of the five defendants charged in the burglary of a Palo business in January, where 75 or more firearms …
Crime & Courts Mar. 22, 2013 11:42 am4688d ago
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved Assistant Federal Public Defender Jane Kelly’s nomination to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals …
Crime & Courts Mar. 20, 2013 2:57 pm4689d ago
The trial for a man accused of killing a Cedar Rapids cab driver in 2011 has been reset again, this …
Local Government Mar. 20, 2013 12:11 pm4690d ago
Marion is nearing i’s $1.5 million goal for the Klopfenstein Amphitheater for the Performing Arts after receiving a $250,311 grant …
Crime & Courts Mar. 18, 2013 3:31 pm4691d ago
A West Branch man who was granted an appeal last December for his conviction in the 2007 death of his …
Crime & Courts Mar. 18, 2013 12:00 pm4692d ago
A Cedar Rapids man was convicted last Friday in federal court for pornography charges following a four-day trial. James Sumner, …


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