Truck trailer lifts off ground after cable snag
Sid Burgett, 49, of Solon, drove the Arkansas Best Freight truck from Hilltop House Furniture Inc. when city engineering cables snagged a corner, lifting one side of the trailer about 11:30 am. The cable, installed in the last month, was supposed to be fifteen feet off the ground. A crane freed the rig after about 45 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sid Burgett
Solon
Arkansas
Burgett
Hilltop House Furniture Inc
Mount Vernon Road
City Engineering
Mel Meyer
Traffic Engineering
Armstrong's eyed for Iowa City store site approval
Armstrong's of Cedar Rapids expected to be named the preferred developer for eastern half of downtown Iowa City property adjacent to the hotel site. The plan calls for an 82,000 square foot store costing about 3.4 million to build and 2.1 million to equip with completion aimed for August 1984. The city would sell the site for 227000 by October 1 and review construction plans as financing is pursued.
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Tom Walsh
Johnson County
Iowa City
Armstrong’s of
Cedar Rapids
Burlington, College, Dubuque and Linn Streets
Armstrong’s
Plaza Towers Associates
U.S
Allan Peremsky
Armstrong
Larry Lynch
Central Business District
Two Iowa City males arrested in Cedar Rapids theft case
Two Iowa City men were arrested in Cedar Rapids on Monday after an employee at Target reported a theft. Richard Justis, 20, and a 16 year old juvenile were charged with third degree theft for taking calculators and a phone totaling over 155 dollars, with a camera also found in Justis backpack value 349 dollars from Photo Pro. Justis held at Linn County Jail while the juvenile was released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Richard Justis
Brookwood Drive
Target
Williams Blvd
Justis
First Ave. NE
Linn County
Judge dismisses delinquency petition against C R youth 16
A Linn Juvenile Court order dismisses a delinquency petition against 16-year-old Scott D. Havel of Cedar Rapids accused of participating in an alleged gang rape. The motion followed a grand jury decision not to file charges against two adults, Todd M. Hahn and Joseph F. Hill, in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.R
Cedar Rapids
Linn Juvenile Court
Scott D. Havel
22Nd Ave
Cedar
Rapids
Brent Harstad
Havel
Todd M. Hahn
Plainview Drive
Joseph F. Hill
19Th Ave
Ernie Pyle Birth Anniversary Noted
On this date in 1900 the famed World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle was born, remembered for his frontline reporting and human interest dispatches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Pyle
Power outages hit Bowman Woods and northeast Cedar Rapids
About 800 customers in Bowman Woods suffered outages on Collins Road NE after a substation fuse blew. 715 customers were restored by 7 p.m. and the rest by 9 p.m. Officials cited equipment problems and rapid restoration as factors, not capacity, with no immediate cause found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowman Woods
Cedar Rapids
Collins Road
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Cedar Horace Webb
Webb
Four Arrests At Cedar Rapids Five Seasons Center
Police arrested four people in two incidents at the Cedar Rapids Five Seasons Center Sunday night. William R. Hanover 19 and Randy Joe Hanover 22 of Palo were charged with assaulting police officers after being taken into custody at 10 50 p m. Anita M. Reagan 20 of East Moline Ill and David A. Demeyer 21 of Rock Island were charged with prohibited acts after marijuana was found.
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Cedar Rapids Five Seasons Center
William R. Hanover
Randy Joe Hanover
Palo
Anita M. Reagan
East Moline
Ill
David A. Demeyer
Rock Island
Arson Suspected in Twin Fires at Same Linn County Home
Deputies investigate two arson events at 1204 Vernon Hill Blvd SE in West Bertram and Cedar Rapids fire teams respond to the Sunday night and Monday morning blazes. Residents Gage and Helke were moving out. no one was home. The first fire started in a rear utility room with a burning trash bag. the second involved papers burned under a bed. The house suffered smoke and water damage and the bed was destroyed.
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Linn County
West Bertram
Dave Maughan
Vernon Hill Blvd
Robert Smith
Swisher
Ron Gage
Joan Helke
Helke
Maughan
Gage
Cedar Rapids
Assault charges dropped in Johnson County case
Geoffrey Scott Walker, 21, of 633 Concord Lane NW Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had assault with intent to commit serious injury charges dismissed in Johnson County District Court after a May Lake Macbride State Park disturbance involving about 50 people due to insufficient evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Lake Macbride State Park
Johnson County
Geoffrey Scott Walker
Concord Lane
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Gazette
L.W. Ward
Iowa City News
Lynch
Peremsky
the Gazette
David L. Brockway
M.A
A.A.E.H
Ent
Glass Road
Coldstream Avenue
North Towne Lane
P.O
Walker
Marion
Hes
Pere
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