Halloween candy tampering reports sweep several Iowa towns
Police report pins embedded in candy found in Mason City Burlington West Burlington and Gray Iowa during the weekend. Two Burlington teens and a 15 year old Burlington boy exposed pins while other areas checked suspect candy. Several other incidents across Columbus Ohio and New Jersey involved needles nails razors and drug contaminated treats with no deaths reported.
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Ron Hansen
Mason City
Burlington
Gray
Iowa
Audubon County
Ted Behne
Behne
Anthony Pugliese
Kyle Scott Barker
Rehne
West Burlington
Columbus
Ohio
John Williams
Dent
John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital
Stratford
N.J
Somerdale
Somerdale Park School
FDA
Voter anecdotes from polling places reveal humor and hiccups
Election workers recall early morning delays, ineligible voters, and peculiar moments at precincts. A janitor arrives in pajamas to unlock a school, a voter ballot mishap leaves a ballotless booth, and a dog in a polling place prompts staff to enforce rules. An 18 year old is blocked due to late registration.
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Dale Flitsch
Otter Creek Township
Juanita Wallace
Grant Wood
Adeline Volesky
Lucille Arrington
Precinct 34
Harriet Thomas
Precinct 13
Did You Know Small home hacks and a voting booth anecdote
Did you know buy a small mechanic oil can to keep cooking oil handy and place bunion pads on chair legs to protect floors. Precinct 21 recalls Sara Peiffer recounting a presidential election incident where a frightened voter suffered claustrophobia after pulling the lever and was aided by a worker.
Israeli forces pressured militiamen to abandon camps
The Israeli army and apparently the prime minister pressed the Christian Phalangists to clear out the camps after a deadly entry on September 16. Commanders acknowledged a bad feeling about the operation but denied any direct link to a massacre.
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Lebanon
Drori
Amos
Phalange
Eitan
Avi Grabowski
Cedar Rapids Woman Falls From Palisades Cliff
Sandy Brown, 25, of 2518 Mallory Street SW, fell 30 to 50 feet at Kepler State Park near Mount Vernon while hiking with a companion. Rescued from the water, she was flown to University Hospitals Iowa City in fair condition with facial cuts and head and chest injuries.
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Cedar Rapids
Palisades
Kepler State Park
Mount Vernon
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Sandy Brown
Mallory Street
Mike Schoneboom
Linn County Sheriff's Department
Brown
Sheriff's Department
Evansdale trappers arrested on fur animal charges
Evansdale Iowa AP two trappers Murl Lusher and Danny Herrmann both 21 held on illegal possession charges for 94 fur bearing animals including 47 muskrats 42 raccoons three opossums and two foxes. They also face a charge of possessing deer meat out of season.
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Evansdale, Iowa
Evansdale
Black Hawk County
Murl Lusher
Danny Herrmann
Pope John Paul II tours Spain amid beatifications
The pope promotes sainthood causes in Seville and Avila as part of a grueling Spain itinerary. He canonizes Marguerite Bourgeoys and Jeanne Delanoue with French Canadian devotion while honoring Sister Angela de la Cruz and St Teresa’s legacy. Cardinal Glemp concelebrates mass. A Catholic dissident in Seville allies with an anti pope figure.
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Seville
Gregory VII
Rome
John Paul
St. Peter's Square
Marguerite Bourgeoys
Montreal
Canada
Jeanne Delanoue
Saint Anne of the Providence
Spain
Angela de la Cruz
Order of the Sisters of the Cross
Vatican
Ignatius Loyola
Francis Xavier
Avila
St. Teresa
Poland
Jozef Glemp
Mehmet Ali Agca
Juan Maria Fernandez Krohn
Fatima
Portugal
Weather Snapshot for Tonight and Week Ahead
Wind from the northeast at 12 mph at 10 p.m. Sun sets 5 01 and rises 6 40 Tuesday. High 59 and low 48 yesterday with trace precipitation. Record high 77 in 1938 and record low 15 in 1966. Extended forecast shows moderate temperatures with Lows mid-20s to 30s then near 40 by Friday. Warming to the 40s and near 60 later. National extremes include a 22 low at Sault Ste Marie and a 92 high at Alice and McAllen.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Alice and
McAllen
Texas
Weather Summary for Sunday and Monday Across the United States
Mild Sunday temperatures spanned from the southern plains to the east coast with eighties from Texas to parts of Kansas and the Gulf Coast. Sixties in the northern Atlantic states, 70s from the Mississippi Valley to the eastern seaboard, while the west saw clouds and snow at high elevations in Colorado. A travel advisory was issued above 7 500 feet. Showers and thundershowers dotted Florida and the southeast while the rest of the south Atlantic coast stayed cloudy. Central Texas to the Tennessee Valley enjoyed clear to partly cloudy skies. Monday forecast calls for scattered showers and thundershowers in the lower and mid Mississippi Valley and adjacent plains, rain across the Great Lakes and north Atlantic states, mixed rain and snow in Montana, with the southwest and Pacific Northwest mostly sunny.
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Atlantic States
Mississippi Valley
Seaboard
U.S
Colorado
Florida
South Atlantic Coast
Tennessee Valley
mid-Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
North Atlantic
Montana
Nation
Pacific Northwest
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