Winter storm halts traffic and plagues Iowa roads
Snow drifts closed Edgewood Road SW and 76th Avenue SW while 29th Avenue SW and 18th Street detours formed. Public Works crews operated 24 hours as blacktop routes drifted shut. Two people injured in Cedar Rapids. several areas reported stalled or abandoned vehicles and near zero visibility in northern counties. Public officials warned wind could keep roads closed until conditions improve.
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Wayne Murdock
Public Works Department
LeRoy Soukup
Linn County
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Cedar Rapids
Mount Vernon
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Ing
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Crestwood Drive
Mercy Hospital
Douglas D. Tompkins
Eighth St
Marion
St. Luke’s Hospital
Davies
Tompkins
Blairs Ferry Road
Addison Street
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Tama County Sheriff's Department
Delaware County Sheriff's Department
Iowa Department of Transporta
Tion
Dubuque County
Sheriff's Department
IDOT
Cedar County
Iowa State Patrol
Oelwein
Gandhi arms sales secrets fuel spy ring reports
The Sunday Times in London cited a Western nation possibly the United States in a spy ring. New Delhi sources said three Defense Ministry officials leaked highly classified information on India’s arms deals with the Soviet Union. India plans MiG 29 fighters, missiles, submarines, naval surveillance systems, and other Soviet hardware.
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Sunday Times
United States
New Delhi
Defense Ministry
India
Soviet Union
Moscow
Three Maryland Men Arrested in Antiabortion Bombings
Three Maryland men Thomas Spinks Michael Bray and Kenneth Shields were arrested on charges of conspiracy to violate explosive and firearms laws and for making and using explosives. Agents found a large quantity of explosive materials at Spinks residence as authorities cautioned about further violence near the abortion rights anniversary.
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Washington
Maryland
Virginia
Supreme Court
Thomas Eugene Spinks
Bowie
Michael D. Bray
Kenneth William Shields
Laurel
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Stephen Higgins
ATF
Spinks
Higgins
Army of God
Gazette redesign boosts Sunday sections and reader access
The Sunday Gazette unveils a new Sports Talk page and expanded Open Forum with columnists and commentary. Fine Print moves to the last left-hand page. Section A adds more News and In the News with illustrations. Metro Iowa pages shift death notices to the last left-hand page. layout includes bolder logos and promotion boxes to highlight top stories.
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Gazette
People
Metro-Iowa
the Gazette
Sunday Gazette
John Robertson
Weather Summary and Extended Forecast for Several Cities
C R weather readings show 11 p.m. data with a -22 low and trace new snow. The January total is 0.95 inches, below normal 1.25 inches, with a 30.28 barometer and 55 percent humidity. Extended forecast calls for no significant snowfall and near normal temperatures Tuesday through Thursday with lows near zero to 15 and highs in the 20s.
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C.R
Anchorage
L.A
Atlanta
Miami
Arctic blast shuts parts of U S with record cold
A mass of arctic air plunges southward from Canada bringing bitter cold across the northern half of the nation east of the Rockies. Wind chills reach 80 below in North Dakota and Minnesota and minus 70 in Iowa as heavy lake effect snows hit the Great Lakes and Buffalo closes its airport.
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Canada
Rockies
New York State
North Dakota
Minnesota
Iowa
Gulf Coast States
National Weather Service
San Antonio
Texas
Great Lakes
Buffalo
N.Y
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