15 Jul 2000
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 2000
Page
1
The Rev Bruce Ough is chosen as bishop in the North Central Jurisdiction but will leave St Pauls United Methodist Church. The article notes his election and the transition underway.
A Cedar Rapids survey shows gas prices dropping with the best deals in the southwest quadrant. Larry Long captures significant moments frozen forever on film for area high school and college athletes. If you hear drums in the sanctuary, contemporary worship has arrived.
Minnesota lures young Iowans with good jobs and lakes, challenging Iowa to retain the workforce its growing economy needs. The Gazette notes the northward pull affects Page 1A.
A compact page looms with brief items on Index Advice three point three sections. Birth notices, bridge results, and a Crisscross puzzle fill the page. The brief entries offer reader tips, family updates, and light mental games.
A survey funded by the City Council shows 38 percent support a 4.8 million four year tax levy for a Veterans Memorial Stadium. Voters in August would decide a 0.30 per thousand rate with a four year sunset and a 14 million project cost including a 3.2 million state grant and 6 million in private funds.
A series of settlements in tobacco litigation spans 1997 to 1998 with Mississippi Florida Texas Minnesota Iowa among states. The document notes proposed settlements, punitive awards, and a large multistate agreement rejected by Congress as part of U.S. tobacco litigation coverage.
A Miami jury awarded $145 billion in punitive damages against the tobacco industry, the largest in U.S. history, for Florida smokers with smoking related diseases. Companies vow to appeal and deny paying any amount, while the ruling marks a major setback amid decades of lawsuits and disclosures about risks and addiction.
A Florida jury set punitive damages against five tobacco companies after a landmark trial. Stanley Rosenblatt hailed it as a reckoning while Philip Morris faced the largest award at 73.9 billion dollars, with Dan Webb criticizing the process as unfair.
Joseph Gross an associate of the Lucchese crime family testified in Cedar Rapids on the 1997 attempt to start drug dealing, loan sharking and other rackets with Floyd and Robert McNeese. The case centers on Scotter Clark and a broader Cedar Rapids operation linked to a prison lifer and mob connections.
An advisory jury found the government did not cause the deaths of 80 Branch Davidians during the 1993 standoff near Waco Texas. The final verdict remains pending from U S District Judge Walter Smith who will consider whether federal agents fired at the Davidians or caused the Mount Carmel fire and was not negligent by using tanks.
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