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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 2003
Page
2
In Baghdad, residents encounter doors thick as walls and marble-lined safes in Saddam family palaces. Blacksmith Ahmed Hamza says the hidden wealth shocks ordinary Iraqis and fuels anger as the family hides from public view.
Modesto California detectives stopped 30 miles from the Mexican border and arrested Scott Peterson carrying $10000 fearing flight. DNA tests later identified two bodies near San Francisco as his wife Laci and their unborn son. Prosecutors plan capital murder charges against Peterson, 30, for the deaths of his 27-year-old wife and their unborn child.
In DeWitt New York a 67 year old man is accused of imprisoning and raping multiple young women in a two room dungeon behind evergreen screens. A 16 year old girl allegedly held six months reported the abuse in a whispered phone call. Police traced the bunker like house to John Jamelske.
The Gazette is published daily and Sunday at Cedar Rapids Iowa with postal and subscription details. It lists delivery options by carrier motor route and mail rates for different regions and editions. The AP has exclusive republication rights to local news and AP dispatches.
After fourteen weeks the Iowa Legislature shapes major bills including an Iowa Values Funds plan to spur growth, tax overhaul, and a regulatory reform package. Also note: Lady Liberty moves from Greene Square Park Cedar Rapids to May's Island near the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Holocaust survivor Charlene Schiff visits Cedar Rapids for commemoration week sharing memories from Poland.
Digging crews uncovered hundreds of 1200 year old arrowheads and pottery fragments under an Illinois hillside near Damiansville. Archaeologist Brad Koldehoff described the site as significant, noting a keyhole shaped house and a small village dating from about AD 600 to 800.
Community information listing general news contact lines for Cedar Rapids Iowa City and area with phone numbers 398 8313 339 3155 and 800 397 8212 plus a note about the GazetteOnline directory and email addresses.
The Gazette highlights its commitment to the future by printing with soybean ink and using recycled newsprint. It urges readers to recycle newspapers at City Carton on Sixth St SW or at nearby recycling locations.
The Iowa Resource for International Service seeks monitors printers and scanners to donate with a State Department grant to Ukraine in July. Vladmir Bassis says the gear will support free press efforts in rural Ukrainian county-seat communities, expanding access beyond handwritten articles.
Federal authorities assess the damage from Ka Trina Leung a Republican activist and FBI informer paid 1.7 million over two decades She allegedly disclosed names of agents tipped off China and compromised nuclear espionage investigations Leung denied bail citing substantial assets and faces charges of unauthorized copying of national defense information for a foreign power
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