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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 2009
Page
1
Lance Armstrong, American cycling star and seven time Tour winner, nears the front of the pack in the Tour de France after a stretch of flat stages dominated by sprinters. He sits in third place as mountains approach.
The Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival paid 19070 for traffic control and crowd policing by 33 officers at the Kirkwood campus fireworks. Festival director Russ Oviatt expects the downtown return while noting higher costs than 2007 when downtown fireworks were held.
Tama, led by Mayor Chris Bearden, competes with four other Iowa counties Lyon Franklin Wapello and Webster to win a new casino license as the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission begins accepting applications and potential referenda are already in place. The move promises jobs and economic stimulus if Tama secures the project.
Britain and the United States risk vaccine contract conflicts as nations push to secure doses during a global flu outbreak. Experts warn governments may retain vaccines for their own citizens, with only a fraction of U S flu vaccines produced domestically and several firms holding U S contracts.
Defense attorneys and law professors say the insanity defense is hard to prove and jurors doubt it. The trial of Mark Becker, 24, accused of killing Aplington-Parkersburg football coach Ed Thomas, will center on competing expert opinions with a jury deciding credibility. Becker plans to plead insanity or diminished capacity in the September trial.
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