Psychics join search for anchor abducted in Mason City
Jodi Huisentruit vanished on June 27 and despite heavy TV coverage her family and police remain cautious. Psychics meeting for a December TV show said the kidnapper is familiar with her celebrity and obsessed with her. Three private investigators have found no solid leads amid flood of online talk and Civil War reenactment ties.
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Sazette
Twin Cities
Mason City
Jodi Huisentruit
Huisentruit
Joann Nathe
Sauk Centre
Minn
FBI
Nathe
Jane Huisentruit
Long Prairie
California
Serbs Agree to Relinquish Eastern Slavonia to Croatia
In Zagreb, Serb leaders sign a peace deal with Croatian government and international mediators to end four years of rebellion over Eastern Slavonia. The agreement sends the area under Croatian authority within a two year transition supervised by UN or NATO forces. Peter Galbraith says human rights will be protected as Serbs and Croats coexist in peace.
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Los Angeles Times
Vienna
Austria
Croatia
Balkan
Zagreb
U.S
U.N
Ohio
ex-Yugoslavia
Thorvald Stoltenberg
Slavonia
Franjo Tudjman
Tudjman
Eastern Slavonia
United Nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Peter Galbraith
Iowa braces for federal shutdown impact and funding gaps
Iowa officials warn a looming federal partial shutdown could hit quickly with DES facing funding through Thursday and other agencies operating for only days. Forward funding may keep most state functions running while negotiations stall over spending authority and debt limits.
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ES Moines
Iowa
Gretchen Tegeler
Tegeler
Washington, D.C
Des
Clinton
Federal shutdown looms for Effigy Mounds and Hoover site
Gazette reports slow march to a possible shutdown affecting 30 Hoover site workers and Effigy Mounds staff. Officials warn furloughed employees may miss pay for days or weeks as sites close and access ends. Both sites brace for possible extended closure with law enforcement and maintenance chiefs among those not working. Copyright era news notes uncertainty.
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Rick Smith Gazette
Ncle
Sam
Timothy Walch
West Branch
Hoover Historical Site
Walch
Karen Gustin
Effigy Mounds National Monument
Marquette
Hoover One
Gustin
Plot to kill Rabin learned by Israeli security five months ago
Five months earlier Israeli authorities learned of a plan to assassinate Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and received an assassin description they could not locate. Details on 5A. Gas leak causes identified in Marion subdivision homes. Details on 1B. Juvenile gun offenses arrests doubled from 1985 to 1993 per Justice Department study. Details on 3A. Packers defeat Bears 35 28 leaving NFC Central tie.
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Yitzhak Rabin
Marion
Justice Department
Month of tragedy for Marengo couple after deaths and fire
Jan and Bob Jacoby faced a grim stretch as their 3 year old granddaughter Nicole died on October seventeenth and Bob's mother Elizabeth died the next day. A November fire heavily damaged their Marengo home. The couple, employed by the Iowa County Secondary Road Department, described the ordeal as overwhelming and heartbreaking. Their pastor Randy Kittelson offered support as they cope with loss and displacement.
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Nicole
Bob
Elizabeth
Marengoome
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