Tax protests pay off for Linn property owners
More than 500 Linn County taxpayers benefited as 535 assessments were upheld on protests while 315 were denied after formal appeals. Vanguard Appraisals Inc. appraised properties and sparked informal spring meetings before formal reviews in mid June.
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Linn
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Rick Ellars
Forrest Holveck
Leo Peiffer
Hoegen
Vanguard Appraisals Inc
Vanguard
Iowa District Court
All American boy hijacks Air Florida jet to Havana
A calm young man in a blue shirt hijacked Air Florida Flight 8 from Fort Lauderdale to Tampa, diverting to Havana. No one was hurt. 42 passengers and 5 crew remained on board for nearly three hours before the plane returned to Miami. The hijacker, who used the name Robert Patrick Richter, was arrested in Cuba.
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Miami
Air Florida
Havana
Air Pirates
Fidel Castro
U.S
Federal Aviation Administration
Fort Lauderdale
Tampa
Miami International
Jose Marti
JoAnn Curry
Boca Raton
FBI
Robert Patrick Richter
Bill Nettles
Habana
Sic
Cuba
John Gonzalez
Nettles
Gonzalez
Iranians Free 199 From Airbus Hijack Surrender to Rajavi
Six Iranian hijackers freed 199 passengers from an Iran-Air jumbo jet and surrendered on orders from exiled guerrilla leader Massoud Rajavi at Orly. Rajavi spoke to the hijackers and urged asylum in France while Iran demanded extradition and air piracy charges.
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Paris
Massoud Rajavi
Rajavi
Iran
Mujahedeen Khalq
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Khomeini
France
Max Gallo
Dubai
Persian Gulf
Tehran
Shiraz
Kuwait
Orly
Police surround Glass Road house after shooting
Police and multiple agencies converged on a red ranch house on Glass Road NE after a reported shooting near 10:30 p m. A standoff continued two hours later with police threatening tear gas while a crowd watched from behind cars and a circling helicopter illuminated the scene. Jeff Mikesel of 2207 Birchwood Drive is identified as a local resident in this unfolding incident.
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Glass Road
Cedar Rapids and
Hiawatha Police Departments
Linn County Sheriff's Department
Iowa Highway Patrol
Cedar Rapids Fire Department
Circle Drive
Weing Road
Jeff Mikesel
Birchwood Drive
Do you remember the days of bad TV reception
A nostalgic note recalls the era when television annoyances centered on poor reception rather than programs. The memory highlights the limits of early broadcast technology and the social impact of cloudy images and tuning challenges.
Bloomingdale pal beaten to death with baseball bat
Vicki Morgan, former model and co plaintiff in a ten million dollar palimony suit against Alfred Bloomingdale, was killed by a baseball bat. Her live in boyfriend Marvin Pancoast confessed to the murder and turned himself in. Police say he stated he killed someone.
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Los Angeles
Vicki Morgan
Alfred Bloomingdale
Miss Morgan
Dan Cooke
Marvin Pancoast
North Hollywood
Cooke
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Sazette County
Gazette
James Bowker
J. Thomas Hoegen
Peiffer
Don Hornstein
Geraldine Wiese
Kirkwood Blvd
Bowling Street
Dave Platz
Lawndale Drive
Wiese
Mercy Hospital
Jet
Ween
Iowa
Bridge Farm
Bloomingdale
Diners Club
Bloomingdale’s
Reagan
Advisers
Bloomingdales
Reagans
Nancy Reagan
Morgan
Pancoast
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