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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 2008
Page
2
A stampede during a festival at a remote mountaintop temple in northern India left many pilgrims dead. Police report 145 fatalities as crowds surged, with officials urging restraint and caution in crowd management.
As of Sunday, the Associated Press tally shows at least 4,129 U.S. military personnel have died since the Iraq war began in March 2003.
Reports from the Ivanhoe Bridge area show many cabins along the Cedar River near Highway 1 have stabilized after June floods. Questions remain for rural residents, with upriver Cedar Rapids also in focus as investigators probe a fire in a flood-damaged Cedar Rapids home and officials warn districts about spending authority as they approach year end.
The Gazette of Cedar Rapids Iowa lists publication details including address at 500 Third Avenue SE and post office box. It outlines subscription options by carrier, motor route, or mail with weekly and annual rates for local and out-of-state delivery. Contact numbers for subscription service and general inquiries are provided.
A brief listing gives phone numbers and a link to GazetteOnline.com for a complete company directory and email addresses. The contact points include 319 398 8313 319 339 3155 and 800 397 8212. GazetteOnline hosts the full directory and contact emails.
The Gazette highlights commitment to the future by using soybean ink and recycled newsprint. It invites readers to drop newspapers at City Carton on Ingleside Drive or to use nearby recycling locations to support agricultural and environmental efforts.
DNA from victims and envelopes pinpointed the Ames strain used in the letters to Bruce Ivins at Ft. Detrick in Maryland. Investigators cross checked spores and lab access, with more documents to be released if the DOJ wraps the case. The FBI’s investigation cost at least $10 million and Ivins killed himself as prosecutors prepared to indict.
The FBI investigates two firebomb attacks on University of California, Santa Cruz researchers one injuring an adult and prompting an escape from a second story window. Police call the incidents domestic terrorism as an animal rights pamphlet with scientists’ home info surfaces.
An avalanche on K-2 in northern Pakistan cut fixed ropes 1,148 feet below the summit. Nazir Sabir of the Alpine Club of Pakistan said nine died, including two rescuers, with others missing amid a desperate post ascent rescue effort.
Al Qaida issued a web statement Sunday confirming the deaths of four senior commanders including Abu Khabab al-Masri, an Egyptian explosives and poisons expert, believed killed in a U S airstrike last week near Pakistan. The group hailed them as heroes and promised vengeance.
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