Muscatine man killed in car crash
Fernando Luis Garcia aged 27 died after his car left Highway 38 near Muscatine early Sunday and crashed into a ditch. His wife Linda 27 and two children were treated and released at Muscatine General Hospital. another passenger Linda Valdez 9 was also treated and released.
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Muscatine
Highway 38
Fernando Luis Garcia
Muscatine General Hospital
Garcia
Linda
Fernando J
Zerinica
Linda Valdez
Water main break disrupts service on 28th Street
A water main burst at the corner of 28th Street and Johnson Avenue NW last night, flooding the street. Randy Hansel of Cedar Rapids Water Department said residents within four to five blocks near the break would lose water until repairs are finished, with service expected to resume by morning. The break occurred around 10:30 p.m.
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28Th Street
Johnson Avenue NW
Randy Hansel
Cedar Rapids
Group seeks support to limit PAC influence
Common Cause seeks to curb PAC money and require free broadcast time for campaigns opposed by PACs. Iowa meetings with supporters and Rep. James Leach aim to back a bill capping PAC contributions to House candidates at 100000 over two years and setting Senate limits by state size. Mawby cites rising PAC fundraising and calls for public financing of elections, with a late spring Senate vote anticipated.
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Dale Kueterszette
Political Action Committees
Common Cause
National Citizens’ Lobby
Iowa
Mark Mawby
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Peoples Unitarian Church
Mawby
House
PAC
Senate
U.S. Senate
James Leach
National Association of Broadcasters
Supreme Court
Ninth grade dropouts blamed on family, drugs in Iowa districts
In Des Moines Waterloo and Davenport Iowa ninth graders are leaving school at high rates. Des Moines and Waterloo see about one in seven dropouts while Davenport reports 1.9 percent, with the statewide average near 3 percent. Educators cite drugs crumbling families and hopelessness as factors.
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Des Moines
Waterloo
Davenport
Keith Brock
Expo Alternative School
Don Graves
Des Moines East High School
Iowa
Beck
Regina Clark
Clark
Man who blinded tourist from Iowa is sent to prison
Beltrami County District Judge James Preece sentenced 18 year old Richard Sturm to six years eight months in the St. Cloud Reformatory for clubbing and partially blinding Iowa tourist Jacqueline Kail during a July heartland Trail attack near Leech Lake. Kail, 43, of Des Moines, was struck with a tree branch and stabbed near Nevis. Sturm pleaded guilty to attempted second degree murder and becomes parole eligible in about 4 1/4 years.
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Bemidji, Minn
Beltrami County
James Preece
St. Cloud Reformatory
Iowa
Heartland Trail
Leech Lake
Richard Thomas Sturm
Jacqueline Kail
Des Moines
Sturm
Kail
Nevis
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Gazette
L.W. Ward
Eldred Wymore
Mercury
First Street
Charles Percy
Darlene Pruit
Firestone
2Nd Ave
Fone Rapids
Bill Reindl
Ohio
Dale’s Fruit Market
Center Pt. Rd
Rte
Norwest Iras
Norwest Bank
Norwest
FDIC
Norwest Brokerage Services, Inc
BHC Securities, Inc
SIPC
Marion, N.A
Rwest Banks
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