Robbers invade Iowa City home in harrowing early morning raid
Wallace Boddicker says two masked intruders tied his family with duct tape and forced him to open a home safe, taking five guns and about 300 rounds. Sheriff searches for a man and woman. a 1979 Buick Riviera is missing. neighbors shaken but unharmed, family calls it a miracle to be alive.
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Iowa City
Wallace Boddicker
Roddicker
Boddicker
Johnson County
Gary Hughes
Hughes
Steve Boddicker
Checks cashed by two 12 year olds puzzles detective
Detective heads youth bureau questions why clerks cashed stolen checks from two 12 year old girls. The pair, arrested after attempting to cash a second $5 check, used an account listed at Mount Mercy College. Police note the checks were stolen Tuesday at Noelridge Park pool.
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Ralph Myers
Police Department
Youth Bureau
Myers
Blairs Ferry Road
Center Point Road
Mount Mercy College
Noelridge Park
Jacquelyn S. Mackey
Jail terms to 2 in attempt to bilk woman
Two men charged in an elder fraud case in Linn County were sentenced. Jackie Pigman pleaded guilty to conspiracy and got five years. Virgel Fritz pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact and received one year with six months suspended. The pair tried to bilk a Cedar Rapids woman out of 3000 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Jackie R. Pigman
Fifth Ave
Marion
Virgel D. Fritz Jr
Sixth St
Pigman
Peoples Bank
Fritz
Debates Planned for Leach Campaign Across Iowa Cities
Republican Congressman Jim Leach and challengers Jim Laren and Gloria Williams will hold two televised debates this fall with Cedar Rapids Davenport and a public forum in Iowa City on the slate. No dates were set.
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Davenport
Jim Leach
Jim Laren
Gloria Williams
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Keokuk Names Cedar Rapids Official Hatton Fire Chief
Lannie Hatton, 37, head training officer for the Cedar Rapids Fire Department, is appointed fire chief in Keokuk succeeding Jud Harmon after 30 years. Hatton, hired as a line firefighter in 1966, rose to lieutenant in 1972 and captain in 1974 before leading the training bureau since 1978. He will assume the Keokuk post in mid August.
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Lannie Hatton
Cedar Rapids
Keokuk
Hatton
Jud Harmon
Edsel McMickle
Fire Service
McMickle
Belongings of Runaway Teens Found Northwest of I 80
York County Sheriff says clothing and personal effects of two 16 year old Iowa runaways Sherry Ann Higgins and Carrie Ann Roberts were found in a ditch along I 80 near Bradshaw. The youths from Fairbank Iowa were believed headed to California.
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York, Neb
Iowa
California
Interstate 80
Bradshaw
York County
Bob Miller
Miller
Sherry Ann Higgins
Carrie Ann Roberts
Fairbank
Two Armed Robberies Target Cedar Rapids Venues
Police investigated two overnight armed robberies in Cedar Rapids. At about 2 a.m. at the Ramada Inn the clerk was threatened with a knife by two white men, one with a pillowcase over his head, who fled with cash. A blue car with a white top carried the suspects, witnesses said. Earlier a service station attendant was robbed by two men, and a cab driver was assaulted and robbed later Thursday.
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Cedar Rapids
Ramada Inn
Sixth St
Roy E. Moraine
16Th St
B Avenue NW
Morarie
Manson acquitted in Delaware arson conspiracy case
Manchester Delaware County District Court Judge Thomas Nelson found Gary Manson not guilty on all four counts of conspiracy to commit arson. Prosecutors alleged Manson offered 1000 dollars to Douglas Hamann to set fires to Manson's cabin and three neighbors to collect insurance. Hamann confessed and implicated Manson. Hamann testified, while insurance details were clarified as 25000 dollars in coverage five years ago.
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Manchester
Delaware County
Thomas Nelson
Gary Manson
Maquoketa River
Delhi
Nelson
Manson
Douglas Hamann
Maynard
Hamann
the Gazette
Oldtime farming demo returns to Springville area
In Linn County on July 27 a seventh annual demonstration of threshing and other old time farming practices will be held at the Arnie Dvorak farm one mile north of Springville on the blacktop. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with no admission charge.
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Springville
Iowa
Linn County
Arnie Dvorak
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