City considers fines for feeding geese on public property
Cedar Rapids Public Safety Committee recommends a ban on feeding wildlife on city property. The plan targets geese and other animals, aiming to curb nuisance and safety concerns on municipal land.
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Linn-Mar juniors screen film at Cedar Rapids festival
Page 6A reports Linn-Mar High School juniors will have their film Flashback screened at the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival. The article notes the festival involvement as part of community arts coverage.
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Sequester Threatens Cedar Rapids Flood Protections
Five years after record Cedar River floods the east side faces funding cuts to flood prevention. Congressman Bruce Braley notes the 11 percent federal budget cut from 2012, impacting walls around the Quaker facility and other projects funded by disaster aid.
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How Vilsack beat the sequester
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack led a maneuver that secured $55 million in new funding to restore most sequestered money for the USDA food inspection program. The move followed a high profile lobbying effort and political theater in Washington as Obama signed a spending bill.
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Death penalty sought for James Holmes in theater massacre
Prosecutors told a Colorado judge they will seek the death penalty for James Holmes, accused of opening fire in a July cinema attack that killed 12 people in Centennial. The brief hearing in Arapahoe County District Court lasted about two minutes.
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North Korea may have shifted to uranium core bomb design
U.S. officials and independent experts say Pyongyang concealed details of its February 12 test and appears to have used a highly enriched uranium core. Analyses show the blast was contained with few radioactive traces escaping.
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