Refunding scheme under investigation
Cedar Rapids police are probing a refunding scam where thieves buy items with bad checks or cards at one chain store and seek cash refunds at another store in the same chain. Detectives warn merchants to scrutinize returns and verify purchase history to curb losses.
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Mark Glennazette
Cedar Rapids
Don Potter
J.C. Penney
Westdale Mall
Potter
Penney’s
Mason City
Linn County Workfare Progress Stumbles Over Liabilities
About 106 AFDC recipients in Linn County are required to work with non profit agencies. only 20 have begun placements and 18 are pending. Delays stem from procedural issues with the pioneer program run by HACAP for the Linn Board of Supervisors and Iowa DHS.
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Linn County
AFDC
Jeff Johnson
Hawkeye Area
Linn Board of Supervisors
State Department of Social Services
Cedar Rapids
Johnson
HACAP
Two inmates escape Iowa Women's Reformatory
Brenda Sue Quick and Pamela Watson escaped the Mitchellville facility about 11 a.m. Officials tracked their steps in snow and found them at a nearby Interstate 80 rest area trying to hitch a ride. They were captured without resistance about 14 minutes later.
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Mitchellville, Iowa
Iowa Women's Reformatory
Mitchellville
Brenda Sue Quick
Cedar Rapids
Pamela Watson
Davenport
Linn deputies face payment request for winning civil rights case
Attorneys Jim Thomas and Rick Johnson seek 104457 for 815 hours in a $287000 verdict against four Linn County sheriff's deputies over a 1979 Prairieburg ballroom arrest. They argue enhanced fees due to extraordinary service and public benefit, while deputies' counsel counters with 340 hours by lead attorney Ray Stefani.
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Linn County
U.S. District Court
Cedar Rapids
Jim Thomas
Anamosa
Rick Johnson
Richard Mundy
Prairieburg
Ray Stefani
Kirkwood faculty push 15 percent pay rise and contract changes
The Kirkwood Faculty Association asked for a 15 percent salary increase and new provisions including 24 days annual paid professional development leave, wellness leave options, and higher sick leave accrual. They propose tuition-free classes for employees and families. A bargaining session occurred publicly at Benton Hall, with another set for December 17 in Iowa Hall.
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Kirkwood
Kirkwood Community College
Benton Hall
Sharlene Gillette
Gillette
Marland
Iowa Hall
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Lyay
JAN Lumber Co., Inc
Linn Brutality Case
Bill
Younkers
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ZPD
E. T. Speaks
E. T. Shop
Universal City Studios, Inc
Yourkers Lindale Mall
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