Weather Summary and Storm Impacts Across Regions
Midnight winds from the north at 14 mph. Sun sets 8 21, rises 5 45 Friday. Record highs and lows noted plus a six hour rain deluge in Mission Texas with 10 inches and golf ball hail in McAllen. Tornado in Minnesota, hail in North Carolina and Ohio. Florida heat records include 95 in Fort Myers Tallahassee percentage higher than typical.
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Prisoners Escape Walls At Marion Penitentiary
The 1979 escape at the U S penitentiary in Marion Illinois involved two inmates identified as informants. They reportedly breached a wall in a 26 floor building and escaped with eight or nine prisoners on the witness protection floor.
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Courts Not Needed for Neighborhood Dispute Says Official
Hayes and Truesdell refused mediation offered by a Linn County attorney before a hearing. Losalla argued courts are overburdened with frivolous claims and can't solve everything. He urged neighbors to resolve issues informally instead.
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Record class at ISU caps 2850 degrees
A record ISU spring commencement will award about 2850 degrees. The ceremony is Saturday at 9 30 am in James H Hilton Coliseum and will be ISU's largest graduation to date.
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Cedar Rapids faces influx of white Asian heroin in 1983
Indictments charge Cedar Rapids native Tom Sage and his Nepalese wife with running a major heroin operation since January 1983. Investigators say white Asian heroin, far purer than prior locally used Mexican varieties, has reshaped Cedar Rapids into a regional distribution hub for Des Moines Davenport and Waterloo.
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Nepalese Diplomats Targeted In Heroin Smuggling Plot
The complaint alleges Nepalese diplomats were to be couriers in a scheme to smuggle heroin into the United States with up to 20 pounds at a time. They would be paid as much as $150,000 per delivery.
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Drug suspect turns self in over northern Iowa heroin case
Peter E Telenson of Cedar Rapids surrendered Wednesday to face federal conspiracy charges involving distribution of heroin in northern Iowa. A Cedar Rapids grand jury indicted Telenson and 15 others Tuesday over a Minnesota based heroin trafficking and importing network. Telenson, 37, 3207 Mount Vernon Rd SE, is to be arraigned Monday on three counts including conspiracy with network leader Thomas Sage to distribute heroin and using phones to arrange deliveries. He was released on a promise to appear. he was the only Iowa suspect not taken into custody last week.
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Peter E. Telenson
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President delays tax plan amid high level disagreement
The president held a 70 minute meeting with Treasury Secretary James Baker and White House chief of staff Donald Regan as officials debate the tax package. Delays stem from Europe travel and budget focus plus disputes over structure. The president vows not to repeal the home mortgage interest deduction.
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