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 Oct. 22, 2020 7:06 pm1843d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A 56-year-old Cedar Rapids man, who stole more than $10,000 from a nonprofit organization that grows produce …
Crime & Courts Oct. 22, 2020 6:59 pm1843d ago
DES MOINES – The Iowa Attorney General’s Office announced Thursday the final rollout of software that allows sexual assault victims …
Crime & Courts Oct. 21, 2020 8:39 am1844d ago
IOWA CITY — One of the three men charged with killing a man during a robbery in April will have …
Crime & Courts Oct. 19, 2020 4:09 pm1846d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The county’s first jury trial under coronavirus restrictions was a little ‘stressful” when held last week, a …
Crime & Courts Oct. 15, 2020 7:45 am1850d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Federal prosecutors have made gun-related crimes their priority for the last few years and this year is …
Crime & Courts Oct. 8, 2020 9:03 pm1857d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Marshalltown man was sentenced Wednesday to more than 19 years after his partner, an Ames woman, …
Crime & Courts Oct. 6, 2020 5:27 pm1859d ago
IOWA CITY – A judge has ruled that evidence of computer and phone searches of pornography and research information on …
Crime & Courts Oct. 2, 2020 8:18 pm1863d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A prosecutor is asking a judge to transfer a 14-year-old Ely boy, who was charged this week …
Government & Politics Oct. 19, 2020 5:52 pm1846d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – Attorneys in the 6th Judicial District have endorsed the retention of all the seven district court judges …
Crime & Courts Sep. 30, 2020 11:37 pm1865d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – After a gunman last year targeted the vehicle her son was in, killing him and another teenager, …
News Sep. 30, 2020 7:00 am1865d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The murder trial for a Cedar Rapids man, accused of killing a man over a pack of …
Crime & Courts Sep. 29, 2020 4:14 pm1866d ago
DES MOINES – A Johnson County man has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for being part of …
News Sep. 28, 2020 3:02 pm1867d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A former director of a Toledo day care convicted of embezzling thousands from the business was sentenced …
Government & Politics Sep. 28, 2020 8:23 pm1867d ago
IOWA CITY – Another Iowa judge has sided with President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, this time in a lawsuit brought …
Crime & Courts Sep. 25, 2020 6:27 pm1870d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – A Fayette County man who received hundreds of images and videos of child pornography was sentenced Friday …

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