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 Apr. 8, 2022 2:59 pm1314d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Logan Weldon, 12, in June 2009, testified in a deposition that he saw his father Tonch through …
Crime & Courts Apr. 8, 2022 2:57 pm1314d ago
MARENGO – The prosecution continues its case 9 a.m. Thursday in the first-degree murder trial of Tonch Weldon who is …
News Mar. 7, 2023 12:48 pm981d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Amanda Weldon in emotional testimony Wednesday, said she and her husband Tonch had an open marriage, but …
News Jul. 13, 2011 10:15 am5236d ago
UPDATE: A jury has been selected in the first-degree murder trial of Tonch Weldon, who is accused of shooting and …
News Jul. 12, 2011 7:25 pm5236d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS -The mother of a 17-month-old who died from head trauma last year is dropping her wrongful death lawsuit …
News Jul. 12, 2011 10:50 am5237d ago
Jury selection began this morning in the first-degree murder trial of a Blairstown man accused of shooting and killing a …
News Jul. 11, 2011 12:37 pm5238d ago
A 27-year-old woman charged with two robbing two pharmacies in March pleaded guilty to theft charges and was sentenced to …
News Jul. 8, 2011 5:14 pm5240d ago
A Chicago woman testified Friday in Johnson County District Court that she never gave police consent to search her Iowa …
News Jul. 8, 2011 10:11 am5241d ago
A judge reduced a $500,000 bond to $100,000 Friday for a Hiawatha woman charged with killing a toddler last year. …
News Jul. 1, 2011 4:00 pm5248d ago
UPDATE: A co-owner of Woody’s Show Club pleaded guilty and was sentenced on a lesser charge Friday in Linn County …
News Jun. 28, 2011 10:40 am5251d ago
A judge on Tuesday reinstated a $100,000 bond set for a man charged with first-degree kidnapping last month because another …
News Jun. 24, 2011 6:00 pm5254d ago
A man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman last month could be a free man again because a …
News Jun. 21, 2011 8:15 pm5257d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The owner of an Iowa City construction company was formally charged today in federal court with harboring …
News Jun. 14, 2011 5:05 pm5265d ago
A Cedar Rapids man accused of four bank robberies bonded out of jail Monday, just as a search warrant was …
Jun. 14, 2011 4:47 pm5265d ago
Assistant Linn County Attorney Jason Burns argued Tuesday that William Roby violated a no contact order of his alleged kidnapping …


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