Grand jury clears North Liberty chief in shooting
Johnson County grand jury found North Liberty Police Chief Jim Warkentin not criminally charged in the August 28 fatal shooting of motorcyclist Kyle Wasson, 24, during a pursuit behind Kate Wickham Elementary School in Coralville. The panel concluded its criminal review Friday after two days of evidence.
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Zack Kucharski
Gazette
Iowa City
Johnson County
North Liberty
Jim Warkentin
Kyle Wasson
Kate Wickham
Coralville
J. Patrick White
Iowa
Cedar Rapids Named Iowa’s Top Recreation City
Sports Illustrated and the National Recreation and Park Association named Cedar Rapids Iowa’s best town for recreation. The city will be featured in a March 1 issue highlighting Dan Gable as Iowa’s top athlete and including a state wrestling tournament. Cedar Rapids earns a cash grant and a commemorative road sign amid plans for new facilities and 100 Recreation Department programs.
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Cedar Rapids
Sports Illustrated
National Recreation and Park Association
Iowa
Matt Siders
Dan Gable
Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids to be sold soon
Fairfield Financial Group in Houston expects to complete the Cedar Rapids mall purchase next month. Joe LaFico said ownership could transfer in March 1st or 31st, with plans to revitalize the 25 year old Westdale Mall.
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C.R. Mall
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Westdale Mall
Joe LaFico
Fairfield Financial Group
Houston
LaFico
Westdale Mall profile and ownership changes in Iowa
Westdale Mall at 2600 Edgewood Rd SW Cedar Rapids opened Oct 4 1979 with 912000 sq ft and anchors JCPenney Von Maur Younkers. The land was bought for 5.5 million by Westdale Investments Oak Park from TIAA, with Fairfield Financial Group in charge of tax bills and planned management hire as ownership shifts unfold.
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Cedar Rapids
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von Maur
Younkers
the Rouse Co
Columbia, Md
Fairfield Financial Group
Houston
Westdale Investments of
Oak Park, Ill
Pop Culture Studies Gain Ground in University Curricula
Professors say popular culture has shifted from a fringe topic to mass culture essential to understanding American values. At Iowa and beyond, courses on media extend to film TV music and video games, using shows like Big Brother to explore surveillance and society.
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John Kenyon
Brooks Landon
University” of
Iowa
America
Mark Andrejevic
Two UI Hospitals Nurses Fired Over Medication Recycling
Two nurses in the University of Iowa Hospitals solid organ transplant program were dismissed for giving costly anti rejection drugs from deceased patients to financially strapped outpatients. The program’s medical director Dr You Min Wu stepped down. UI Health Care cites an internal probe and confidentiality.
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Gazette
Iowa City
University of Iowa
The
You Min Wu
UI Carver College of Medicine
Tom Moore
University of Iowa Health Care
US Health Care
Moore
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