Oakdale to open mental health unit for inmates
Oakdale prison will reopen the old East Wing at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center as a new unit for inmates with mental health problems. The 24-bed unit will feature on site social workers and counselors to aid transitions and socialize skills. About $100000 has been spent on renovations.
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Christoph Trappe
Gazette
Coralville
Oakdale Prison
Cherokee
Iowa
Iowa Medical and Classification Center
Popula
Lowell Brandt
Brandt
Lawmakers pitch tents to spotlight clean water grants
Iowa lawmakers Rob Hogg and Donovan Olson camped at Palisades-Kepler State Park to press for Senate File 200, a 5 million clean water grants package. They highlighted impaired Cedar River sections and noted grants via a new watershed improvement board with first meeting August 22 and potential October grant availability.
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James Q. Lynch
Mount Vernon
Iowa
Palisades-Kepler State Park
Rob Hogg
Ccedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Cedar County
Highway 30
Hogg
Donovan Olson
D-Boone
Senate
House
Wapsipinicon
Backbone Lake
Lake Darling
Hogg and
Olson
RAGBRAI bus crash victim breathes and speaks
Brandi Helmkamp a 30 year old Des Moines woman injured when a support bus failed brakes and crashed in Guttenberg has regained breathing opened her eyes and begun talking her condition improving said family members The bus driver Ronald Laing 40 also from Des Moines was among the two people on board Officials said the bus reached speeds of 70 to 75 mph before jumping a curb and sparking a fire.
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Theresa Helmkamp
Ragbrai
Guttenberg
Helmkamp
Ronald Laing
Des Moines
Jerry Moser
Laing
Upper Iowa program leader Brooke Kerns dies in crash
Brooke Kerns 38, director of Upper Iowa University athletic training program, died from injuries after her SUV was struck when a dump truck hose attached trailer crossed into her lane on Highway 150. She led the program to accreditation and taught as an assistant professor at UIU.
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Oelwein
Upper Iowa University
Brooke Kerns
Daniel Funk
Westgate
Kerns
Covenant Medical Center
Waterloo
Mike DeCisse
Gil Cloud
Upper Iowa
Cedar County trims precincts keeping Stanwood and Bennett
Cedar County reduces voting precincts from 13 to 11 under HAVA rules. Stanwood and Bennett keep polling sites while Rochester is eliminated for accessibility issues. New system units begin in city elections this November with full operation by January 1.
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Dave Rasdal
Tipton
Stanwood
Bennett
Cedar County Board of Supervisors
Todd Sawyer
Sawyer
Cedar County
Betty Ellerhoff
Ellerhoff
Congress
Cedar
Elimi
Rochester
HAVA
Tractor accident in Central City injures man after air conditioner incident
A 64 year old Central City man suffered head and back injuries when a tractor ran over him Thursday. The man, unnamed, was in the tractor seat as his son tried to start it with a tow truck chain. The tractor moved, struck a large air conditioner, and a wheel ran over him before his airlift to University Hospitals. Condition not released.
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Central City
Linn County Sheriff's Deputies
Water boil advisory issued for two northeast Iowa communities
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources ordered residents in Denver Hills subdivision near Denver and Winter Mobile Home Park near New Hampton to boil tap water due to high fecal coliform levels. Boil orders stay until samples confirm safety. use bottled water for drinking, brushing teeth, cooking, and cleaning.
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Iowa
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Denver Hills
Denver
Winter Mobile Home Park
New Hampton
Muscatine Man Pleads Guilty to Arson and Insurance Fraud
Ronald J. Orellana of Muscatine admitted setting his home ablaze and pursuing insurance money. He pled guilty to second degree arson and insurance fraud, saying through an interpreter that he knocked over a gas can and started the fire on June 7. He is jailed, with sentencing scheduled for September 9.
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Muscatine
Ronald J. Orellana
Orellana
Gazette
News Services
Clinton Man Killed Under Grain Truck Box
Brian Griswold, 48, of Clinton, was pinned under a hydraulically operated grain box at his home Thursday. The box lowered and pinned him to the truck frame, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Clinton
Brian Griswold
Griswold
UNI program staffer drowns in Italy during trip
Stephen Dember twenty from Cedar Falls drowned early Wednesday in Italy while serving as a staff member for Camp Adventure Youth Services a University of Northern Iowa based foreign service program.
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Italy
Cedar Falls
Stephen Dember
Camp Adventure Youth Services
University of Northern Iowa
Iowa Illinois Lotteries Draw Results and Jackpot
Aug 4 draws list results for Iowa and Illinois lotteries. Numbers include Cash Game 3 13 14 29 35. Pick 3 and Pick 4 midday and evening. Little Lotto 1 59 1634 6 01 48. jackpot $16 million.
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Iowa
Illinois
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