Iowa counties face 2.4 million shift in substance abuse funding
House Republicans warn counties will bear 2.4 million in treatment costs as 100 percent state funding expires June 30. Lawmakers say the lapse may force service cuts unless offset by new revenue and higher court fees, with future efforts to restore full state support.
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Des Moines
Iowa
House
del Stromer
Garner
Bill Royer
Essex
Roger
House Health and Human Rights Budget Subcommittee
Stromer
Swartz
Classmates Reunite After 94 Years In Grass Valley
Cora Strong and Grace Burckart, first grade classmates in McGregor Iowa, reconnected in Grass Valley California after 94 years. Strong, 99, visited Burckart in a local rest home where Burckart is celebrating her 100th birthday. They recalled the teacher's marching drill and the 1896 flood that swept away Strong's father's flour mill.
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Grass Valley
Calif
Cora Strong
Grace Burckart
McGregor
Iowa
Strong
Grass Valley Union
Burckart
California
Bad milk valve blamed in salmonella outbreak at Hillfarm Dairy
Health experts link a cleaning valve in Hillfarm Dairy’s piping to the nation’s largest salmonella outbreak. The valve may have allowed tainted raw milk to mix with pasteurized milk during blending, affecting Hillfarm milk sold at Jewel stores across Illinois Indiana Michigan Wisconsin Iowa and Minnesota.
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Chicago
Hillfarm
Illinois
Jeremy Margolis
Jewel Companies Inc
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Maquoketa couple sue toy firm over eye injury
Jan and Karen Crist of Maquoketa sue Fisher-Price Division of Quaker Oats Co. in U S District Court Cedar Rapids seeking 500000 for their daughter Kelli alleging a spike shaped axle of a Bouncy Racer penetrated her right eye causing permanent disability. The suit also seeks 50000 for medical costs and loss of companionship.
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Maquoketa
Jan
Karen Crist
Fisher-Price
Quaker Oats Co
U.S
Cedar Rapids
Kelli
Two bars ordered to pay damages in dram shop case
Cedar County jury awards the estate of Robin Kelly fifty thousand dollars in a dram shop suit against Town and Country Lanes and Joe and Phil's for selling alcohol to John Freeman on December seventeenth, 1981. Freeman died in a car crash later that night, killing himself and three passengers including Robin Kelly. The corporations faced no farm-entity damages, and other defendants were dismissed.
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Tipton
Cedar County
Robin Kelly
Gerald L. Hodgett
Town and Country Lanes
Maquoketa
Joseph A. Savage
Joe
Phil
Elwood
John E. Freeman
Freeman
Central City
Clinton County Road
Toronto
Clarence
Albert Kelly
Robin
Hodgett and
Savage
Kelly
Lillian
Alma Freeman
John Freeman
Iowa Electric Light and Power Co
Clinton County
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Tom Swartz
Marshalltown
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Sue Toy Company
Kelly Cedar Farms Ltd
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DuraSoft
Jausch & Lomb Softens
Sears
Dubuque
Iowa City
Waterloo Crossroads
Ene
Amana
Mastercook
Radarange
Smulekoffs
1St St
3Rd Ave. S
Smulekoff's
Waterford
Mom
Debbie Langer
Crystal
Bridal Registry
Sunbeam
Oster
Oster Kitchen Center
Smul Corner
3Rd Ave. S.E
Hamilton Beach
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