Iowa teens balance work with paying college costs
Anamosa senior Marco Walz saves about 10 000 from 30 hours weekly at a grocery store and bank to fund a year of Johnson Bible College tuition. Iowa teens say part time jobs teach punctuality and people skills, with students juggling school, sports, and chores to save or earn extra money.
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Anamosa High School
Marco Walz
Johnson Bible College
Tennessee
Walz
Iowa
Mary Lou Erlacher
Dan Murphy
Prairie High School
Elizabeth Lederer
Alex
Cedar Rapids Washington High School
Alex Lederer
Dairy Queen
Erlacher
Parking ticket appeals mirror across Iowa City and Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids and Iowa City drivers contest handicap and meter related tickets similarly. The boards include city staff and one citizen in Cedar Rapids, and two city employees plus a citizen in Iowa City. Tips note that meter malfunction tickets are often dismissed after reporting the fault.
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Cedar Rapids
Sonny Friis
Chuck Mincks
Mary Latuska
O’brien
Iowa City
Barb Coffey
Dan Sellers
All Secure Inc
Friis
Cedar Rapids uses Milwaukee firm to collect parking fines
Cedar Rapids increasingly uses Professional Collection Solutions to chase past due parking tickets. Since the contract, the agency has collected 17.8 percent of 59 290 tickets totaling 677 825 dollars, with the city earning 75 percent of the recovered amount.
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Janet Borholm
Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Professional Collection Solutions
Doug Forbes
Doug Wagner
Kevin O’malley
O’malley
Frustrated mother details murder case and her daughter's work
A Cedar Rapids mother says her daughter earned about 500 weekly from online sex work and never met the client, while police pursue leads on Davis the suspect. The case marks the metro area’s first murder in nearly a year, with no arrests yet.
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Alderman
Iowa
Davis
Cedar Rapids
Iowa faces likely loss of congressional seat in 2010
Sen. Tom Harkin says a seat loss is foregone as reapportionment trends favor the South and West. Sen. Chuck Grassley suggests coalitions with states of similar interests could help Iowa. Brace notes Iowa unlikely to change population before the 2010 census without a major policy shift.
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Tom Harkin
Iowa
House
Congress
Harkin
California
Texas
Florida
Chuck Grassley
Midwest
Brace
Arizona
Georgia
Vada
Utah
Alabama
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Massachusetts
Missouri
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Director George Cosmatos Dies at 64 in Victoria
British Columbia director George Cosmatos known for Rambo and Tombstone died last week after a recent lung cancer diagnosis.
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Associated Press
George Cosmatos
Victoria
British Columbia
Tombstone
Lauryn Hill to headline Swedish Stockholm Jazz Festival
Grammy winning singer Lauryn Hill will perform at the Stockholm Jazz Festival on Skeppsholmen island in July. Also appearing are Roy Haynes Lee Ritenour Angelique Kidjo and Toots Thielemans. Concerts run July 19 to 23 with venues including Stockholm Concert Hall and Kungstrad garden park. About 70 percent of the music will be acoustic jazz.
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Associated Press
Lauryn Hill
Stockholm
Sweden
Skeppsholmen
Roy Haynes
Lee Ritenour
Angelique Kidjo
Toots Thielemans
Hill
The
Fugees
Kungstrad Garden Park
Bosse Persson
Persson
Motley Crue offers reward in missing woman case
Motley Crue joins in a reward effort for Tracey Gardner-Tetso a 32 year old from Rosedale Md missing since March 6 after not meeting friends at the Red White Crue Tour 2005 show in Washington D C The band will match up to 10000 to publicize the disappearance per management official Katie McNeil Nikki Sixx urged tips from the public Gardner Tetso worked as a dispatcher for Aggregate Industries and the prior reward came from the Victims Rights Foundation and Metro Crime Stoppers.
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Knight Ridder
Motley Crue
Washington, D.C
Tracey Gardner-Tetso
Rosedale
Mci Center
Katie McNeil
Nikki Sixx
Victims’ Rights Foundation of
Gaithersburg
Metro Crime Stoppers and
Aggregate Industries
Gardner- Tetso
Tammy Faye Messner Says Cancer Liberating Experience
Tammy Faye Messner says losing eyelashes during her colon cancer battle was liberating, noting a person is more than appearance. Diagnosed nearly ten years ago with cancer spreading to her lungs, she still has quarterly scans and remains not cancer-free. She divorced Jim Bakker in 1992.
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Associated Press
Tammy Faye Messner
Tammy Faye
Messner
Tammy Faye Bakker
Jim Bakker
Nolte's Son Charged With Marijuana Intent To Deliver
Brawley King Nolte, 18, son of actor Nick Nolte, faces a charge of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver after a Kanawha County arrest in Charleston West Virginia. Police found 70 grams in a freezer bag during a traffic stop for a broken headlight. Nolte posted a $2 500 bond and was released.
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Associated Press
Nick Nolte
Kanawha County
Charleston
W.va
Brawley King Nolte
Malibu
Calif
Nolte
Birthday Lineup Covers Burnett Taylor James Brewster Welling
Actress Carol Burnett, drummer Roger Taylor, Kevin James, Jay DeMarcus, Jose Pasillas, actor Tom Welling, Jordana Brewster and other stars share birthdays today. Notable anniversaries and milestones accompany the celebrity list.
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Carol Burnett
Roger Taylor
Duran Duran
Kevin James
King of
Queens
Sy Rive
Jay DeMarcus
Rascal Flatts
Jose Pasillas
Incubus
Tom Welling
Smallville
Jordana Brewster
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