Pain lingers long after 91 blast
Jon and Kay McWhinney recall their teenage son Mitch who died making a pipe bomb in 1991 and how guilt and grief linger. They empathize with families of two Linn County men who died in a Palo barn blast and a third injured. They wish they had acted sooner to curb Mitchs dangerous fascination.
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Jim O’neal
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Jon
Kay McWhinney
Linn County
Palo
McWhinneys
Mitch
Iowa
Iowa City Prepares as UI Students Return for Fall
Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret reflects on years of UI student life as 26,000 plus arrive for fall classes. The city readies with cleanup, noise control, and classroom prep while streets buzz and students fill downtown avenues for the new term.
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Joan Liffring
Zug
Bourret
Tom Owen
Gazette
Owa City
Joan Liffring-Zug
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Agroterrorism training grant to Kirkwood College $3.2 million
Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids receives a $3.2 million Homeland Security grant to fund a train-the-trainer program. About 150 community college instructors will be trained to teach fire and police personnel nationwide on agroterrorism response and recovery, with materials for departments and 300,000 first responders over two years.
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The
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Kirkwood Community College
Federal
Department of Homeland Security
Doug Feil
Kirkwood
Feil
Militiamen begin leaving Najaf shrine in Iraq
Militia fighters started to abandon the Shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf taking up positions outside or fleeing the city after Muqtada al Sadr offered to return custody to moderate clerics. U S forces largely held fire after striking militia positions with AC 130 gunship fire overnight. Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi withdrew a threat to evict the militia by direct assault. Al Sadr called on followers to hand over the shrine keys.
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Washington Post
Najaf
Iraq
Imam Ali
Muqtada al-Sadr
U.S
Ayad Allawi
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