Final arguments in I E death claim over Lake Macbride tragedy
Cedar Rapids based Iowa Electric Light and Power faces a 1.5 million actual damages claim after a 1979 electrocution on Lake Macbride killed 24 year old University of Iowa graduate student Brad Groff. The suit cites nine negligence counts and seeks damages for the widow Marina Groff. The trial before Judge L Vern Robinson began with jury selection and was expected to finish that afternoon. Groff’s death halted by rerouting the power line, and testimony covered the victim’s education and potential lost earnings.
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Cedar Rapids
State Park
Cottage Reserve
John Skowronski
Robert Baron
North Liberty
Iowa Sailing Club
L. Vern Robinson
Don Ribble
Groff
New Jersey
Judy Buxton
Oakridge Lane
the Groffs
Brad Groff
Buxton
University of Iowa Economics
Charles Marberry
Groffs
Brad
Robinson
Former Tama woman is storm's 8th victim
The vicious winter storm roaming Iowa Tuesday claimed an eighth life as Waterloo police found Jean Davenport 29 a former Tama resident in a snow bank near her home four blocks from her farmstead outskirts. Earlier a man 52 from Clear Lake froze to death near summer cabins. Authorities cited footprints and exposure.
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Waterloo
Jean Davenport
Tama
Clear Lake
Paul Kienast
Des Moines
Newton
Ombudsman urges end to Civil service requirement
Iowa Ombudsman urged the Legislature to reconsider the 1937 rule forcing cities of 15 000 or more to maintain civil service systems. He noted half of the 21 large cities were not in full compliance and warned legal challenges could follow if jobs or promotions were denied due to missing civil service structures. The Iowa League of Municipalities backs letting cities set their own personnel policies.
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Iowa
Citizens Aide
Bill Angrick
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Angrick
Cedar Rapids
Legislative Committee
Arne Waldstein
R-Storm Lake
Iowa League of Municipalities
Waterloo man shot in tavern. another charged with murder
In Waterloo a 24 year old man James Edward Hall Jr. was found dead from a shotgun blast in a tavern on the east side shortly after midnight. Lloyd Thomas Allen Jr. 26, of Waterloo, was arrested around 5 am and charged with first degree murder as investigators said no motive has been established.
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James Edward Hall Jr
Lloyd Thomas Allen Jr
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