Iowa not broke says Comptroller despite September gains
Iowa revenue rose 3.3 percent in the first quarter from last year yet trails the 4.9 percent target to balance the budget. Comptroller Ron Mosher cautions that sales tax growth must improve next quarter or projections will be revised. Democrats attack the figures as election year manipulation while Mosher warns of a real growth need for the rest of the year.
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Gazette Wire Services
Des Moines
Iowa
Ron Mosher
Roxanne Conlin
Mosher
Robert Ray
Bentonsport Historic Home Tour Set for Sunday
Bentonsport Iowa hosts a nine location historic home tour featuring seven homes built between 1840 and 1870 and the Mason House hotel. Tickets cost 3 dollars with under 12s free. hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 592-3579 or 293-3831 for details. Proceeds benefit restoration and preservation by the Bentonsport Improvement Association.
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Bentonsport
Iowa
Des Moines
Mason
Drunk Driving Suspect Found Dead in Pella Jail
Celeste Ida Rodda, 35, of Pella, strangled herself in a jail cell at the Pella Police Department while held on a drunk driving charge. She was found unconscious around 4 am, transported to a hospital and pronounced dead. Police Chief John Moffet said a jailer checked on her less than an hour earlier. she used a blanket tied to the bed to hang herself.
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Pella
Iowa
UPI
Celeste Ida Rodda
John Moffet
Rodda
Moffet
Des Moines
Tauke hails job training bill as great help for jobless
Rep. Tom Tauke praised Congress for approving a 3.8 billion Jobs Training Partnership Act aimed at aiding the unemployed. He said the measure provides resources for job programs, retraining for workers affected by plant closings, Job Corps funding, and employment services benefiting more than a million people yearly.
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Tom Tauke
Congress
Motorcycle crash north of Decorah kills Marshalltown man
Carroll Shepard, 37, of Marshalltown was killed in a 3 am motorcycle crash about three miles north of Decorah. He was southbound on Winneshiek County Road W-34 when he did not stop at a stop sign, skidded across Highway 52, struck the opposite sign, and landed in a ditch. He died on arrival at Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital.
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Decorah
Marshalltown
Carroll Shepard
Winneshiek County Memorial Hospital
Winneshiek
Sheriff's Department
Shepard
Castalia Man Dies After Tree Limb Fall
Castalia resident Larry Shde 42 died from injuries after a tree limb fell on him while chopping wood. He died at 12 45 p m Saturday at Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse Wisconsin after transfer from Postville Community Memorial Hospital.
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Castalia
Larry Shde
Lutheran Hospital
la Crosse
Wis
Postville Community Memorial Hospital
Langley Convicted in Death of Tyson at Iowa Penitentiary
Lee County jury found Iowa State Penitentiary inmate Allen Langley guilty of first degree murder in the stabbing death of Gary Tyson during the prison uprising on September 2, 1981. Langley faces a mandatory life sentence to be set by District Judge William Cahill. Prosecutors said Tyson was held by two inmates while others stabbed him. Elbert Wilson was acquitted last month. Murray Doss trial continues. jury selection begins for Jerry Lee Williams.
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Mosher
Fort Madison, Iowa
UPI
Lee County
Iowa State Penitentiary
Allen Langley
Gary Tyson
Langley
Tyson
Polk County
William Cahill
Elbert Wilson
Murray Doss
Jerry Lee Williams
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