Mitchell Overcomes Barriers Learning to Read in College
Jerry Mitchell of Monticello, 41, enrolls in Kirkwood Community College's Right to Read program to learn reading and writing, reflecting personal resilience and community support. Destiny Winkie, a 4 year old cancer patient from Walford, departs for California with her family via a wish granting group. A Venor Rapids man aims to address a stolen funds case after pleading guilty to first degree theft. Farm machinery sales are forecast to rise next year as the farm economy improves, according to an industry expert.
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Kirkwood Community College
Destiny Winkie
Walford
California
Swimmers Come With A Chuckle In Daily Page
A lighthearted note from today mocks swimmers as people who go to great lengths. The brief joke plays on the word lengths and the idea of training journeys.
House votes ban on lie tests in private sector
The House approved a sweeping ban on polygraph use by most private employers by a 254 to 158 vote after hours of debate. An opposing substitute would have allowed regulated polygraph testing, but failed 242 to 169.
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Washington
House
Senate
Organized Labor
C.W. B. Young
R-Fla
George “Buddy” Darden
D-Ga
Ex-Cedar Rapids woman killed in Florida store robbery
Phyllis Mann Harris 53 and coworker Janet Thermidor 35 were bound and set afire during a Cloth World store robbery in Deerfield Beach Florida. Harris died at the scene while Thermidor survived after extensive burns. Robber Robert Henry 29 confessed, saying three accomplices forced him to kill. Harris once wrote a Cedar Rapids weekly column and had moved to Florida with her husband Burt after teaching in Iowa.
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Rick Smith
Gate Star
Cedar Rapids
Florida
Deerfield Beach
Fla
Phyllis Mann Harris
Cloth World
Janet Thermidor
Harris
Thermidor
Rob
Robert Henry
Henry
Phyllis Harris
Burt
Clinton
Mater Dei
Candice Reed
Burt Harris
Harrises
Iowa
Reed
Fredericksburg
Greene
Beaman-Conrad
Semco
Schleswig
Duane Goode
Goode
Ed Secretary targets colleges with high loan default rates
Secretary William Bennett warned that colleges and trade schools with future loan defaults above 20 percent could be expelled from all federal student aid. About 2,200 institutions now fail the threshold, threatening Pell Grants and work study as the government spends 1.6 billion this year to cover defaulted loans. Bennett released 1985 figures showing over 500 schools with 50 percent or more graduates or dropouts not repaying loans.
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Washington
Secretary of Education
William Bennett
Colleges and Trade Schools
Bennett
South Mountain Community College
Arizona
New York Theological Seminary
Cheyney University
Pennsylvania
Morgan State Universaryland
Shaw University
North Carolina
Department
Euucation
Fynight
Sophisticated cocaine transport ring cracked
Federal agents shattered the nation’s largest drug transport ring tied to the Medellin Cartel. The Miami based operation used spotter planes infrared beacons and cover girls to move up to 60000 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to the United States between 1982 and 1986 earning about 90 million dollars. The indictment names 30 defendants including leaders Michael Munday and James Coley with Munday a fugitive.
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Smami
Medellin Cartel
U.S
Colombia
United States
Bill Perry
Miami
FBI
U.S. Customs Service
Michael Sheehan
Bahamaan
Florida
Michael Munday
James Coley
Munday
Bergen faces wait and see after close election loss
Police official Floyd Bergen, a 10 year public safety commissioner, lost to Bob Jaeger by 251 votes. He will await canvass results Monday then decide on a possible recount. If unresolved, Jaeger will start a two year term January 1.
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Rick Smith
Heather Sloman Wood
Gazette Star
Floyd Bergen
Bergen
Public Safety Commissioner's Office
Bob Jaeger
Pupuic
Sioner
Jaeger
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Srandon Schott
Jerry Mitchell
Monticello
Mitty
Venor Rapids
Friends of the Library
Veterans Memorial Coliseum
NcWo
Kevin Harmon
Ronnie
Kevin
Farm
Henry Possehl
C.R
William Bennew
Oing
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