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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 2001
Page
1
Iowa State University’s PriSUm Odyssey solar car finished 16th in the 2001 American Solar Challenge, covering 2,247 miles in 92 hours 39 minutes. Michigan won in 56 hours 10 minutes, Missouri-Rolla second, Waterloo third. ISU stayed competitive in the desert sweep.
Activists on both sides push immigration as a central theme for next year’s Iowa gubernatorial campaign. Rep. Jack Hatch says it’s political theater, while anti immigration groups vow to rally public debate. Gov. Vilsack’s aides call the critics intolerant as town meetings and a Model Cities program spark discussion on welcoming immigrants.
An autopsy report suggests the baby found in a Bettendorf closet may not have been born alive. The infant named Sarah Jones was 36 to 37 weeks gestation and wrapped in plastic in a bucket. The mother admitted disposing of her other child's remains at a veterinary clinic where she worked. No charges filed.
Tiffany Hopp, 27, of Keokuk, Iowa, convicted in May of conspiring to kill her husband, faces up to seven years at a Sept. 5 sentencing. The attack occurred Dec. 20, 2000, in Nauvoo, Illinois, and involved two 16-year-old helpers.
In Atlantic Iowa a 1-year-old boy Broderick Welch died after an early morning fire at the Valley View Apartments around 2 30 AM Officials say an overloaded extension cord in the family’s apartment started the blaze Firefighters found him unconscious under a desk his parents escaped through a main floor window The city sits about 45 miles northeast of Council Bluffs
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