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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 2003
Page
2
Finance Commissioner Lyle Hanson said the final price tag for Veterans Memorial Stadium ballpark climbs to 16.49 million dollars from the planned 15.3 million. Details on page 1A.
Bever Park Zoo relocated the final 11 monkeys to new homes as the facility closed to save Cedar Rapids city about 80 000 dollars annually. The report also notes Cedar Rapids asked Linn County District Court to review the voluntary annexation of 144 acres to Ber tram and to send the case back to the City Development Board.
Iowa higher education shows greater minority representation than the state. 7.4 percent of students and 7.9 percent of faculty are minorities, versus 6.1 percent of Iowans in 2000. Also noted are a Sept 20 game vs Arizona State on TV and Steve Thunder-McGuire’s 383.6 mile record at the National Challenge.
The Supreme Court ruled that forcing medication on mentally ill criminal defendants is permissible only in the rarest circumstances. It set strict conditions the government must meet to order treatment to restore fitness to stand trial.
The FBI reports an overall decline in crime nationwide and in Cedar Rapids from 2001 to 2002. Murders rose in suburban communities and rapes increased in midsized cities, while overall crimes against people and property fell slightly.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to press Israel's assault on Hamas while the militant group rebuffed proposals for a truce. The standoff deepens as fighting intensifies and negotiations stall.
Lawyers for sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad asked Monday for a judge rather than a jury to hear his trial, arguing a fair jury could not be found in Virginia. Muhammad andLee Boyd Malvo, 18, have been linked to 20 shootings with 13 deaths.
Rockwell Collins will be the standard supplier of communications and navigation equipment for the Airbus A380. Best Buy to shed Musicland Group affecting about 1,100 Media Play Sam Goody and Suncoast stores nationwide.
A compilation notes misidentifications and corrections across reports including June 13 items about Cory Timm and Taralyn Taylor, June 1 traffic fatality, Badlands terminology, Walford sales tax vote, Upstate Medical Center location, All the Right Moves workshop date, photo captions, and agency naming errors with Cornerstone Christian School.
Kathleen Parker reflects on the death of David Brinkley at 82 and the enduring father figures of Huntley and Brinkley. She recalls the Kennedy and MLK eras, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam era as pivotal times televised into American living rooms.
In Swisher County Texas a judge released 13 convicted drug offenders on personal recognizance bonds while appeals test the convictions. The defendants allege racist conduct by former undercover narcotics officer Tom Coleman who testified in the cases.
A Census Bureau report shows 10.6 million children were raised full time by stay-at-home moms last year, a 13 percent rise since 1994. Among two-parent households, over a quarter of children under 15 had mothers not working. Full-time stay-at-home dads numbered 189,000 in 2002, up 18 percent.
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