WalMart Opponents Persist in Iowa City Fight
Gary Sanders leads Iowa City Stop Wal-Mart as he and 1 000 Friends of Iowa challenge Wal-Mart expansion plans. After a land purchase deal fell through amid flood plain concerns, Sanders says any future action involving government could trigger litigation while Wal-Mart remains ready to seek suitable land locally.
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Riverfront Development Progress in Cedar Rapids
Progress reports on Cedar River riverfront goals in Cedar Rapids outline funding plans, grants, and private partnerships. Efforts include staffing a governing authority, improving bridge access for cyclists and pedestrians, and lighting demonstrations. Public promotion of features like benches as memorials continues, with a proposed timeline project and broad stakeholder coordination ongoing.
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Coroner Rules Worker Electrocuted at General Mills Plant
Cedar Rapids coroner rules 42 year old Christopher Kluesner died of cardiac arrest due to accidental electrocution while replacing a fan on a transformer at the General Mills plant in Manchester Iowa. Kluesner worked for The ESCO Group based in Marion. The incident occurred about 1 15 p m Saturday. Investigators from Iowa Occupational Safety and Health Enforcement are reviewing the case with results likely in two to three months.
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Cedar Rapids woman charged in Kohl's theft case
Prosecutors filed second degree theft charges against Tina Emig 39 Christina Emig 19 Jill Miell 40 for conspiring with a friend and Emig's underage daughter to steal four shopping carts holding 2282 dollars of merchandise from Kohl's on Collins Road NE. The younger daughter 15 was arrested and released.
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North Liberty man sentenced in girlfriend's cocaine death case
Erich O. Newton 31 was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine resulting in death and related firearms charges. He pleaded guilty in 2005 to trafficking cocaine from 1995 to 2004 and admitted to giving cocaine to Sara Palumbo who died from overdose in January 2004. Police seized over 600 grams of cocaine and firearms at Newton's North Liberty home.
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