Cedar Rapids considers riverboat gambling
Iowa investors eyed bringing a riverboat casino to Cedar Rapids with 800+ jobs and $15 million payroll. A public lease of land near the Cedar River could trigger a countywide vote on gambling, then state licensing and city financing plans.
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Douglas Neumannazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Linn County
Tom Collins
Collins
Cedar River
J Avenue
Ellis Park
Lee Clancey
State Racing and Gaming Commission
Osceola
Mississippi
Missouri
Cedar Rapids panel details public art gift policy
A city panel outlines a new policy for gifts of public art requiring donor qualifications site plans maintenance and funding details. The Cedar Rapids Visual Arts Commission would assess proposals on aesthetic quality and other factors and report within 30 days to the City Council.
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Douglas Neumann
Cedar Rapids Visual Arts
First Avenue
First Street
Commission
Peggy Fashimpaur
Fashimpaur
Fashimpour
Tom Newport
Cedar Rapids
Dave Rega
Mount Vernon
Coach Davis cautions Settles on agent choice
Coach Tom Davis questions Jess Settles as a likely first round NBA pick and urges waiting to sign an agent. Settles plans to proceed as scheduled despite the caution. Details also note D. David Beatty receiving an award at the White House last month. A relative of two of eight December deaths concerns the trucker, the trucking company, and the motor home driver estate.
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Tom Davis
Jess Settles
NBA
Settles
David Beatty
White House
Abduction Probe In Calmar Faces Memory Gaps
Authorities investigating a Pronto Store robbery and abduction in Calmar cite extreme memory loss by Heather Buchell as hindering leads. Buchell says investigators fault her and questions remain about money missing while her family blames DCI for possible inside involvement.
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Gazette
Iowa
Bureau
Calmar
Heather Buchell
Division of Criminal Investigation
Bucheit
Pronto
Lang
Dave Hageman
ValuJet recovery team retrieves flight data recorder
In Everglades search efforts for ValuJet Flight 592, divers and Navy salvage crews recovered the flight data recorder and several body remains. The data box was bent but intact and sent to the NTSB in Washington for analysis. the cockpit voice recorder remains buried beneath the swamp.
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Miami
ValuJet
Navy
National Transportation Safety Board
Washington
NTSB
Robert Francis
Everglades
Dade County
Joseph Davis
Supreme Court narrows limits on truthful price advertising
The Supreme Court, in a 9-0 decision, struck down a Rhode Island ban on liquor price advertising, ruling that truthful price information receives stronger First Amendment protection. The decision may hinder broader moves by President Clinton and the FDA to curb tobacco ads, though it focuses on factual price disclosures rather than image-based campaigns.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Rhode Island
Evan Lawson
Clinton
Federal Food and Drug Administration
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