Tight funds force staff cuts at Grant Wood AEA
Federal and state budget squeezes trigger 16 position cuts at Grant Wood Area Education Agency across two Board meetings. Fourteen certified and three classified posts eliminated, with likely reductions in direct services for handicapped students. Some recalled if new funds become available.
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Kurt Rogahn
Aazette Stait
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Grant Wood Aea
Myron Rodee
Rodee
Grant Wood
Ex-postmaster of Volga faces mail theft counts
The former Volga postmaster Donald Q. Dunbar Jr. was indicted on three counts of postal employee theft. He pleaded innocent and a trial is set for April 28 in Cedar Rapids. He allegedly stole bearer refund checks from Volga mail on June 13 July 12 and August 5 last year and took a cash refund on the final date.
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Volga
Donald Q. Dunbar Jr
U.S. District Court
Cedar Rapids
Montpelier murders linked to couple in car death
Authorities classify the deaths of Rodney Phillip Sindt and Teresa Christine Sindt as murder by own action after autopsies show each died from a single gunshot wound to the head. A .22 revolver was found nearby as investigators cite the estrangement and breakup as motive. The car was in Clark's Ferry recreational area, spotted Sunday morning by a woman seeking Mrs Sindt, who had been missing since Friday.
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Gazette Wire Services
Montpelier
Here
Rodney Phillip Sindt
Teresa Christine Sindt
Bettendorf
Tom Ruxlow
Iowa
Truck Pulled From Cedar River After Snowmelt Flood
Miller's Towing employees extracted a pickup from the Cedar River near Old River Road SW across from the Cedar Rapids gun range around 6 p.m. Tuesday. The vehicle owned by Gary Bartosh of Cedar Rapids was left on the riverbank and swept away as water rose from melting snow and rain. Two tow trucks and a Cedar Rapids Fire Department boat joined the recovery.
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Miller's Towing Service
E Ave
Cedar River
Old River Road
Cedar Rapids
Gary Bartosh
U of I Extends 35th Exchange Pact With Fudan University
University of Iowa President James Freedman will sign the 35th exchange agreement with Fudan University in Shanghai at a 5 p.m. reception, enabling scholars, professors, and graduate students to study together. The program has grown rapidly since 1980, with many exchanges focused on China.
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Karen Herzog
Iowa City
University of Iowa
James Freedman
U of I’s
U of I
Freedman
Fudan University
Xie Xide
Shanghai
China
Iceland
Japan
Korea
Germany
England
Venezuela
Mexico
France
Jan Felsing
Department of Study Abroad
City University
London
Felsing
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Karls Eberhardt University
Tuebingen
Saic Felsing
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John Mclivoi
New Cambridge
Cambridge
Philip Morris Inc
FTC
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