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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 2003
Page
10
Police identify 18 year old Kenneth Derring of 4353 First Ave SE as the victim in a Saturday morning I 380 crash near H Avenue NE. Derring died at the scene after his southbound car crossed the median and struck a northbound van.
Police confiscated about three pounds of marijuana and $1,575 in cash from Tony Westmoreland, 23, of 524 Fourth St. SW, at Collins Plaza Hotel. He was arrested at 1:22 a.m. Saturday for possession with intent to deliver after a security guard reported a marijuana odor from room 212.
A woman was hit by a vehicle on the Edgewood Road bridge over the Cedar River around 10:20 p.m. She had exited her car after a previous accident on the icy bridge and was taken by ambulance to St Luke's Hospital. Northbound bridge lanes were closed and several other crashes were reported in Cedar Rapids that night.
A single vehicle rollover on North 10th Street near Shamrock Woods in Marion at 4 14 a m left one person dead at the scene and another injured. The northbound pickup exited the road into an east ditch and overturned, ejecting the occupants. The injured driver was taken to St Luke s Hospital in Cedar Rapids. Names are being withheld pending relatives notification.
The History Center in Cedar Rapids remains in fiscal limbo after banks rejected a three member committee’s offer to buy out its 1.4 million mortgage. Center director Martha Aldridge said they hoped to offer a figure that would yield a return for lenders while preserving the center, noting recent fundraising attempts and current payments burden. Guaranty Bank leads the mortgage with Wells Fargo and U S Bank also holding portions. The center has not paid its mortgage for about nine months and faces potential foreclosure if current terms aren’t met by April 7.
Iowa DOT crews begin the season paving the final 13 miles of the Avenue of the Saints between Plainfield and Charles City bypasses and building new interchanges. Bridges on a 30 mile southern stretch should be finished this summer with grading set to start. Donnellson and Argyle bypasses open to traffic in limited fashion by November. The 251 mile four lane span from Mount Pleasant to the Minnesota line heads for completion in 2005.
Eastern Iowans recall a world frozen in the past as clocks advance yet memories pull them back. The piece contrasts 1970s Nixon impeachment chatter with current politics, noting Kerry’s stance on regime change and public reactions amid Iraq tensions.
Iowa health care providers received SARS treatment guidelines as of Monday. No suspected cases existed in Iowa per the state health department. The CDC definition centers on a respiratory illness with unknown cause appearing since Feb 1 and meeting specific SARS criteria.
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