Snowy Iowa crash snarls roads and delays buses
A multi-vehicle crash on Highway 1 near Martelle involved a semi driven by John Fink of Darlington and damaged several cars and pickups. Two passengers were hospitalized. The weather caused widespread travel disruption with school buses delayed and road crews dragging drifted gravel and blacktop roads to reopen. Interstate 380 delays and air traffic at Cedar Rapids Airport affected travel, with zero visibility and drifting snow reported across Linn and surrounding counties.
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Billy Hart
Cedar Rapids
Tanya Clark
Martello
Hart
Clark
Anamosa Community Hospital
Highway 1
Anamosa Community
Marvin Boyer
Boyer
Sin 1
Linn County
LeRoy Soukup
Soukup
Sookup
Wayne Murdock
29Th Avenue
18Th Street
Kyle Grel
Grell
O'Hare
Weather linked Iowa traffic deaths crash and injuries
Weather conditions in Iowa caused three fatalities and multiple injuries Sunday. Two men died after a two vehicle collision on Highway 61 near Zwingle while a third person was hospitalized in serious condition. A separate icy I-29 crash near Glenwood killed a 13 year old boy and injured nine others.
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Roth
Leonard Metcalf
Dubuque
Jackson County Public Hospital
Maquoketa
Ness
Mercy Hospital
Interstate 29
Iowa
Richard Melton
Glenwood
Richard
Mills County Sheriff's Office
Christina Turnbull
Council Bluffs
Je Johnson
Turnbull
Melton
Mike Costello
Clarinda
Nancy
Alicia
Scott
Johnson
Nathan
Costello
Vicki Evans
Reagan's new budget blends aid shifts and drug war push
President Reagan promotes a feel good theme with 10 percent of page from lethal military aid and the rest for non lethal aid. He backs increased education spending and a broader war on drugs while seeking 1.8 billion dollars to fight AIDS. Byrd and Wright offer mixed reactions praising arms treaties yet urging Congress to act on Central America.
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Reagan
Nancy
Congress
Congres
America
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
Dw.va
House
Jim Wright
D.texas
Central America
Iowa lawmakers react to Reagan State of the Union
Sen. Tom Harkin criticizes the address as lacking substance while Sen. Charles Grassley praises style and questions follow through. Rep. Tom Tauke notes Reagan's pledge against omnibus bills and Rep. Dave Nagle expresses disappointment as the bipartisan budget summit ends.
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Washington
Tom Harkin
Dtowa
Reagan
Charles Grassley
Tom Tauke
Neagan
Dubuque
Dave Nagle
Frozen pipes let fire go unchecked
Decorah firefighters battled a mobile home fire at Kathleen Mitchell’s residence four miles west of Decorah on Highway 9. The blaze damaged the living room and kitchen and was blamed on combustibles placed near a wood burner. Mitchell, home at 3:10 p.m., struggled to fight the fire due to frozen water pipes and lack of phone service, needing to walk half a mile to summon help.
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Decorah
Kathleen Mitchell
Highway 9
Mitchell
Amana to host Farm Progress Show sites for years
Negotiations place Amana Colonies as a two time site for Farm Progress Shows with options to become permanent in Iowa. The 1988 show runs Sept 27 to 29 at West Brooklyn Illinois, with 200,000 to 300,000 visitors potentially boosting Cedar Rapids area tourism by tens of millions annually.
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Amana Society
Cedar Rapids-Iown City
Budd
Amanas
Inclu
Im Garrett
Cedar Rapids
Monroe Miller
Kalona
Town City
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Bill Fry
van Horne
Jack Holland
Alleman
Amana
West
Brooklyn
Jackson Says He Can Cut Defense Budget
Jackson outlines a rural focused campaign from Greenfield near Des Moines. He highlights civil rights work with Martin Luther King Jr and diplomacy with Gorbachev Castro and others, while urging pre school education child care and teacher pay. He calls for ending SDI and reallocating defense savings to domestic programs.
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Greenfield
Des Moines
America
Martin Luther King Jr
Mikhail Gorbachev
Fidel Castro
Gorbachev
Nakasone
Jackson
Strategic Defense Initiative
Hertz Repair Bill Fraud Allegations Across Nation Detail
The article alleges Hertz billed insurers and customers at inflated rates by using altered damage forms and forged signatures. It reports dual estimates, high bids sent to customers, and ballparked repairs based on photos or accident reports. Some third party charges were tied to inflated repair costs.
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Hertz
Wertz
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Iowa City
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Marion
Farm Progress Publications
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Montgomery Ward
Masiear
Amarcon Ezpeas
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George Bush
Bush
Roy
Iter's
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