Fog and Ice Cause Dozens Of Eastern Iowa Crashes
Heavy fog and icy roads blamed for numerous accidents across Eastern Iowa Friday night and Saturday. In Buchanan County near Fairbank three drivers escaped injury but cars were destroyed in a collision on an icy road involving James Risse Timothy Otto and Tamara Prior with damage around 18000 dollars. A Decorah woman Holly Losen remained hospitalized after a single car crash near Aurora when Scott Iverson lost control reading a road map. Dispatchers noted many fender benders overnight with Interstate 80 slick near the Victor exit but no injuries reported.
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Fairbank
Buchanan County
James C. Risse
Readlyn
Timothy D. Otto
Tamara Prior
Decorah
Holly Losen
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Aurora
Losen
Scott Iverson
Iverson
Iowa County
Iowa public school enrollment falls after decade of decline
A DPI survey shows Iowa public school enrollments across 445 districts declined for ten years. September 1979 total of 547,199 K-12 students is 3.6 percent below 1978, with peak enrollment of 659,888 ten years earlier. Officials expect the total to bottom near 500,000 by 1984 as births modestly rise.
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Des Moines
DPI
State Department of Public Instruction
Iowa
Leland Tack
Department
Data Analysis and Statistics Bureau
Tack
Iowa Roundup Iowa man pleads guilty to third degree sexual abuse
LLOYD CROOKS, 38, of Cedar Rapids, pled guilty in Benton County District Court to third degree sexual abuse involving a minor from an April incident. Sentenced to up to 10 years. remanded to sheriff custody. Appeal bond set at $10,000. Fire destroys rural Edgewood home. no one home. heavy smoke and water damage. Delaware County deputy reports flames from fireplace. In Independence, Donald Weber, 25, Jesup, charged with drunk driving. jailed awaiting magistrate court appearance. Huff accused of second-degree burglary, auto theft. probation and restitution ordered after existing sentence. Judge Kenline defers judgment in Welter case. Welter placed on probation. Vinton, Jerry Holrah, 22, Atkins, sentenced to 15 days in Benton County Jail for marijuana possession. starts Jan 2. fined $100 plus costs. appeal bond set at $1,000.
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Lloyd Crooks
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Cedar Rapids
Benton County District Court
Crooks
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State Division of Adult Corrections
Edgewood
Dennis Sullivan
Delaware County
Independence
Buchanan County Sheriff's
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Jesup
Weber
Buchanan County
Huff
Underdahl Motor Co
5Th Judicial District
5Th Judicial District Detention Center
Karl Kenline
Buchanan County District Court
Gerald Joseph Welter
Lamont
Welter
Vinton
Jerry Lynn Holrah
Atkins
Benton County
Holirah
Independence youth sentenced for double burglary
Kirk Priest Matlock 20 of Fort Madison received a 10 year term to the state Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa after pleading guilty in Buchanan County District Court to second degree burglary. The crime stemmed from the Malek Theater break in Independence on October 28. The sentence runs concurrently with a Lee County sentence for a probation violation.
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Kirk Priest
Matlock
Fort Madison
State Men’s Reformatory
Anamosa
Buchanan County District Court
Malek
Independence Police
Uregas Co. of Independence
Lee County
Des Moines man pleads guilty in Thursday hearing
Independence notes that 19 year old Anthony Wayne Huff of Des Moines pleaded guilty on Thursday to a pending charge. The court set future dates for sentencing and potential penalties are expected to be announced.
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Independence
Anthony Wayne Huff
Des Moines
Speller Pirates Prompt Federal Copyright Law
Before Noah Webster published his dictionary he created the influential Blue Back Speller Unscrupulous publishers pirated the Speller and reprinted it without payment or credit Webster then urged Congress to enact the federal copyright law of 1790 to protect authors rights
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Webster
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