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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 2004
Page
9
Police investigated an apparent accidental drowning at a northeast Cedar Rapids home on Falbrook Drive NE. Officers found a person in the pool at 5:24 p.m. and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. name not released.
Christopher Usher, 40, of Marion, pleaded guilty in federal court to making a false certificate on a home equity loan for First Federal Credit Union. He signed in 1999 claiming funds would pay for home improvements but needed the money to cover gambling debts. Restitution of 19482 is planned. sentencing pending after pre sentence investigation.
A kitchen blaze at 1618 Park Towne Lane NE in Cedar Rapids was doused by firefighters after 6 p.m. No injuries reported and two adults and a child displaced with Red Cross aid. Investigators could not confirm the cause.
Tanager Place files in Linn County District Court alleging the Iowa Department of Human Services overstated duties after a resident, Russell Jankowski 15, ran away May 29 and drowned in the Cedar River. The petition seeks reversal of the report or a hearing to contest it.
Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Justice longtime faculty member of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop has died at age 78 in Iowa City after a stroke and pneumonia complications. Justice won the 1980 Pulitzer for Selected Poems. Fellow alum Robert Dana recalled Justice’s impact in the workshop.
The Hall Perrine Foundation awards Coe College a 900000 grant to renovate Stuart Hall the campus oldest building. The project will add nearly 36000 square feet of classrooms and faculty offices and support enrollment growth at the Cedar Rapids school now over 1300 students. Stuart Hall originally opened in 1909 as the Science Hall on First Avenue and College Drive NE.
At the Cedar Valley Amateur Radio Club hamfest at the Amana Visitors Center, stallholders faced new state demands to report and pay sales tax on flea market transactions. The column argues the tax enforcement is inconsistent and burdens small sellers, suggesting thresholds or exemptions.
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