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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 2008
Page
3
The National Transportation Safety Board probes a near collision at O'Hare International Airport on Monday at 12 47 p m CDT as American Eagle Flight 4298 took off on one runway and a Learjet arrived on a perpendicular runway.
Hurricane Dolly battered south Texas with 70 to 100 mph winds and heavy rain. Levees along the Rio Grande Valley held as the storm weakened to tropical storm then Category 1, with about 53,000 customers without power and 5,000 in shelters. Eight-person family Rescue and 17-year-old injured on South Padre Island as flood risks remain.
The federal minimum wage increases from 5.85 to 6.55 per hour affecting about 2 million workers. The rise is the second of three annual steps under a 2007 law and faces higher prices and pass-through costs for small businesses. Iowa already sets minimums at 7.25.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will invest 375 million to fund global tobacco control. Bloomberg contributes 250 million and Gates 125 million to support higher tobacco taxes quit smoking campaigns advertising bans and protection for nonsmokers in countries with high smoking rates.
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