TOGIR II riders slog through heat toward Dubuque
The Other Great Iowa Ride TOGIR drew about 200 cyclists from Davenport to Dubuque on a hot hilly Sunday. Riders covered 85 miles to Upper Iowa University in Fayette with stops at Bellevue and St Donatus and passed through Sageville Holy Cross and other towns on the 500 mile northeast Iowa loop.
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Dubuque
TOGIR
Davenport
Iowa
Clarke College
Bellevue
Des Moines Register
Mississippi River
LeRoy Stonecypher
Industrial Electrician
Floyd
St. Donatus
Upper Iowa University
Fayette
Sageville
Durango
Richardsville
Holy Cross
Luxemburg
Colesburg
Edgewood
Strawberry Point
Arlington
Wadena
Gazette Map
Blind man paints house by touch in Iowa city
Abe Clark, blind for a decade, paints his two story home with help from his wife Ellen and sister Audrey Kruse. He relies on touch and verbal cues to check progress, using a strap on the can and a cane while still doing carpentry and fishing as hobbies.
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Amy Doerr
Council Bluffs (Ap
Abe Clark
Clark
Ellen
Audrey Kruse
Ms. Kruse
Grand jury indicts cocaine rings in Nebraska and Iowa
Federal indictments describe three major Omaha area rings operating since 1981 with 27 core members and 35 additional dealers. Cocaine arrived from south Florida by mail, motor home, or via middlemen, then moved through stash houses in Omaha and Council Bluffs before sale. Twenty-eight arrested. four sought.
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Omaha, Neb
Nebraska
Iowa
South
Florida
Joseph J. Bongiorno
Bongiorno
Bartrem
Wayne Womochil
Council Bluffs
Womochil
Grand Jury
Omaha
Douglas W. van Horn
Crescent
South Florida
van Horn
Council Bluffs- Crescent
Omaha- Council Bluffs
Nashville
Tenn
Conon
Bo” Ortiz
Ortiz
Officials search for 2 in river near Dubuque
Two men in their late 20s missing and presumed drowned after a fishing boat was hit by a speedboat in the Peosta Channel near Hawthorne Street boat ramp on the Mississippi River. Rescuers searched into Saturday night and again Sunday after five people in the speedboat were unharmed.
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Dubuque
Mississippi River
Peosta Channel
Haw
Thorne Street
Des Moines River death identified as Des Moines man
The body pulled from the Des Moines River near a downtown bridge was identified as Richard Cline 27 of Des Moines. The autopsy ruled drowning as the cause and the body was found by a boater then recovered downstream about an hour later.
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Des Moines
Richard Cline
Polk County
R.c. Wooters
Wooters
Rural Corwith man dies in car-semi collision
Rural Corwith resident Jerry E Schulz aged 16 died when his car attempted a U turn from the shoulder and collided with a semi driven by Gregory A Giedd 29 of Lanerick Illinois on a Hancock County road. He died at the scene according to Hancock County sheriff officers.
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Corwith
Iowa
Jerry E. Schulz
Hancock County
Schulz
Gregory A. Giedd
Lanerick, Ill
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Jackson
Ragbrai
Minnesota
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Eugene
Claytor
Lelaware
Luxemburc Richardsvil
Igeville
Mark Glenn
Gazette Staf Ider
D.M
Bill Cass
Bedford Tire
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