Cedar Rapids man charged with third degree sexual abuse
John E. Rife, 41, of 2403 Glacier St. SW, was charged with third degree sexual abuse after allegedly having sex with a 15 year old girl at his home on three occasions between Sept 11 and Oct 24. The victim said the acts occurred multiple times in 2000. Police say Rife impersonated the girl's father to remove her from Jefferson High School. He is free pending further court action.
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Rife
Glacier St. SW
Jefferson High School
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Susan Robins
Marion High School
California
Riverside City College
Susan
Lois
Ernie
Two Women Injured When Car Strikes Cedar Rapids Restaurant
Leona Knock aged 82 from Marion and Betty Blahnik 91 of Cedar Rapids improved after Sunday crash. They rode with Betty Rohrbough 82 who lost control and struck a parked car before hitting Cooper's Mill Restaurant at 100 F Ave NW. Rohrbough treated and released.
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Cedar Rapids
Leona Knock
Marion
St. Luke’s Hospital
Betty Blahnik
Mercy Medical Center
Betty Rohrbough
Rohrbough
Cooper’s Mill
F Ave
Coe College Reading by Elizabeth Wurtzel Delayed by Weather
Best selling author and music critic Elizabeth Wurtzel postponed her Coe College reading scheduled for today at 11 a.m. due to East Coast weather and flight cancellations. A new date will be announced later.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
New York
Wurtzel
Coe College
Hills Family Escapes Mobile Home Fire
A mother Brandy Cloughy and her two children escaped a late night fire at 408 Dakota Trail in the Iowa City Regency Mobile Home Park between Iowa City and Hills. The 9:15 p.m. Monday blaze sent flames from the trailer as Hills and Lone Tree firefighters fought the fire. the dog perished, the children were unharmed, and Cloughy was hospitalized with unknown injuries.
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Dakota Trail
Iowa City
Hills
Iowa City Regency
Hills Fire Department
Benson
Lone Tree
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Cedar Rapids Budget Sees Roughly 5 Percent Property Tax Hike
Cedar Rapids City Council faces a fiscal 2002 budget with about a 5 percent property tax increase. The owner of a $100000 home would pay roughly $733.70 annually, up from $699.09, driven by a 30 cent levy rise to $13.04 per thousand and a higher rollback rate to 56.3 percent. The city’s total property value climbs to $6.01 billion as major infrastructure and utility projects are included.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Kirkwood College Receives Vision Iowa Grant for Equestrian Center
The Vision Iowa board awards 250000 for the Iowa Equestrian Center expansion at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids. The project, costing 29 million, includes a stable indoor arena display area campground and parking with a completion planned in about a year.
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Todd Ruger
Des Moines Bureau
DES Moines
Kirkwood Community College
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Vision Iowa Board
Vision Iowa Fund
Kirkwood
Kirkwood Community College Board of Trustees
Steve Ovel
Ovel
Marion girl learns auto passion from dad’s cars
Nick Stutterheim, a Ver non Middle School sixth grader, talks up his mother Susan Robins’s 1950 Willys-Overland Jeepster and his dream of a dirt tearing truck. Susan, a medical records transcriber, grew up with cars and hopes Nick learns to drive a stick before restoring the Jeep as a family project.
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Heim
Nick
Vernon Middle School
Susan
Jeff
Luther College trio heads to world programming finals
Luther College sophomores Stefan Atev and Mark Anderson and senior Jessica Oftelie, guided by assistant professor Kent Lee, prepare to compete in the ACM ICPC world finals in Vancouver after qualifying as Luther’s first team. The trio will join 63 other teams in the Vancouver contest, with Atev hailed as the group’s best programmer.
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Luther College
Mark Anderson
Kenosha
Wis
Stefan Atev
Sofia
Bulgaria
Kent Lee
Jessica Oftelie
Atev
Aurora
Minn
Association For Computing Machinery
Luther
Vancouver
British Columbia
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