Jetseta bill would apply death penalty to child killers
Sen Grassley named the measure for 10 year old Jesseta Gage who was abducted from Cedar Rapids and found slain in Johnson County. Roger Bentley 37 was charged with kidnapping and murder in her death. Gage family supports the bill as a deterrent and hopes for change.
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Grassley proposal tougher penalties for child sex crimes
Sen. Chuck Grassley proposes harsher penalties for child sex predators. The plan calls for death or life in prison when violence against a child under 15 results in death, thirty years to life for kidnapping or sexual assault with injury, fifteen to life for violence causing bodily harm to a child under 12, and ten to life if a dangerous weapon is used.
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Former Iowa basketball player faces no contact order violation
Pierce Pierce 21 is due in Dallas County District Court Adel to answer prosecutors’ claims he violated a no contact order with Tiffany Whitsell 24 by using a lost or stolen cell phone to call her 81 times over a 17 hour period after standing behind a student in an Iowa City bar.
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Cedar Rapids Marine strives to return to duty after Iraq injury
Marine Sgt. Dan Erbe of Cedar Rapids was seriously wounded on St Patrick's Day in Iraq when a rocket shattered a storage container nearby. After three surgeries and rehab in Iowa he hopes to resume duty and plans to return to sports, saying doctors expect full recovery. He served in Afghanistan and three Iraq tours.
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Iowans Targeted by Rise in Postal Money-Order Scams
The Gazette reports a statewide loss of 778,505 dollars this fiscal year from counterfeit postal money orders. In Eastern Iowa, inspectors seized 986 counterfeit orders since last October, over a quarter of the national total for 2004, amid an uptick after banks began exchanging scanned check images in October under new federal rules.
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Bush proposes cut to future Social Security benefits
President Bush urged Congress to curb future Social Security benefits for all but low income retirees amid shaky finances. He pitched a reformed system where low income workers' benefits grow faster than those for higher earners, part of a plan opposed by Democrats and many Republicans. This marks his first embrace of a specific benefit reduction for tens of millions.
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