Exide faces fines over sulfuric acid releases in Manchester
Exide Battery Corp may be fined by the Iowa DNR for two December and February sulfuric acid releases at its Manchester plant. The scrubber failures damaged employee cars and sparked $600,000 in claims. no injuries or community threat reported. Plant repairs and improved scrubber maintenance followed.
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Holocaust survivor visits Iowa students for education
David Fishel spoke to Longfellow Elementary fifth and sixth graders in Iowa City about his experiences as a 12 year old in Nazi camps. He described confinement at six camps, brutal beatings, and survival lessons, urging the children to act when they see wrong.
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Appeals court upholds neglect ruling in Cedar Rapids child death
Iowa Court of Appeals finds mother Jessica Blough negligent for delaying medical care after her 2 year old daughter Sadie suffered fatal injuries from boyfriend Sean O Geary. Blough convicted of child neglect with a 10 year term. O Geary received life for first degree murder.
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Linn County woman gets new chance in winter parking lot slip
A Linn County Court of Appeals panel ruled Mount Vernon must allow Carolyn Hughes to prove city sanded the parking lot as policy required. Hughes slipped on what she described as black ice after slipping from a van during a November 1996 incident following a light snowfall. Local officials showed seven tons of sand and half a ton of salt were applied to streets and lots that day.
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Linn County
Carolyn Hughes
Iowa Court of Appeals
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