Linn County Supervisor District Map Adopted for Cedar Rapids
The approved plan divides Cedar Rapids precincts into five supervisor districts with District 4 containing no Cedar Rapids precincts. District 1 in pink covers numerous churches schools and public facilities across the southeast and northwest areas. District 2 in orange includes Grant Wood agencies and several schools and churches along the southwest and downtown corridors. District 3 in yellow lists multiple elementary and middle schools plus churches mainly in northeast Marion and Hiawatha. District 5 in blue places campuses and community sites along the southwest and northwest columns into another voting region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Lutheran Church
Third Ave
Cedar Rapids
42Nd St
Options
Linn County
Seventh St
Polk
B Ave
Isaac Newton Christian Academy
Linmar Dr
Faith United Methodist Church
30Th St
Washington High School
Forest Dr
Bethany Lutheran Church
Putin visits site of Stalin era purges at Butovo
Russian President Vladimir Putin surveys a site south of Moscow where firing squads killed thousands during the Stalin era purges at Butovo. On Lubyanka Square in Moscow demonstrators remember victims of Soviet repression with flowers and portraits, honoring diplomats like Ignaty Kalina killed in 1938.
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Vladimir Putin
Moscow
Stalin
Butovo
Russia
Irina Kalina
Ignaty Kalina
Lubyanka Square
KGB
Solovsky Stone
Solovsky Islands
Arp 87 Interacting Galaxies Blurred by Gravity
NASA released a Hubble image of Arp 87 a pair of interacting galaxies in Leo about 300 million light years away. The large spiral NGC 3808 distorts the companion forming a enveloping arm while tidal material shows stars and gas pulled by gravity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NASA
Hubble
Leo
Earth
Smiths mother seeks justice in grandson death in Bahamas
Virgie Arthur arrives in Nassau as the Coroner's Court prepares a seven member jury to determine Daniel Smith's 2006 death. She says she hopes the inquest will deliver justice over possible drug involvement and foul play. Daniel Smith died Sept. 10, 2006, three days after Dannielynn's birth. Anna Nicole Smith died Feb. 8, 2007 in Florida from prescription drug overdose.
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Associated Press
Anna Nicole Smith
Nassau
Bahamas
Virgie Arthur
Daniel Smith
Arthur
Dannielynn
Florida
Today’s birthdays list for notable media and entertainment figures
Anchorman Dan Rather and NBC anchorwoman Jane Pauley mark birthdays alongside actors Ron Rifkin Rob Schneider and David Ogden Stiers. Directors Peter Jackson and Vanilla Ice musician Rob Van Winkle also turn another year older in today’s notices.
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Dan Rather
Ron Rifkin
Alias
David Ogden Stiers
NBC
Jane Pauley
Peter Jackson
Lord of the Rings
Rob Schneider
Rob van Winkle
Vanilla Ice
No charges filed in Kid Rock Tommy Lee VMAs incident
Clark County DA says no battery charge will be pursued against Kid Rock or Tommy Lee for the Sept. 9 2007 Palms Hotel confrontation at the MTV Video Music Awards. Lee requested no prosecution and no injuries were reported. Both men are ex husbands of Pamela Anderson who presented at the show.
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Associated Press
Kid Rock
Tommy Lee
Las Vegas
Clark County
Nevada
Dan Kuhin
David Roger
Clark County District Attorney’s Office
Robert James Ritchie
Palms Hotel and Casino
Roger
Lee
Pamela Anderson
Culp Lawsuit Against Los Angeles Zoo Moves Forward
Actor Robert Culp and Aaron Leider sue the Los Angeles Zoo over elephant treatment alleging withheld medical care and cramped spaces. They seek to halt a $40 million elephant exhibit and demand no elephants at the zoo. Judge Reginald A. Dunn rejected the city's legal challenge to the complaint.
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Associated Press
Robert Culp
Los Angeles Zoo
Reginald A. Dunn
Aaron Leider
Culp
Leider
John A. Carvalho
Library uncovers Hepburn speeding account
A 1950 51 tour arrest in Blackwell Oklahoma involving Katharine Hepburn and a driver is revealed in papers donated to the New York Public Library. Hepburn reportedly berated a police officer calling him a moron and dumbbell and threatened tire damage in a Connecticut Oklahoma cross claim.
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Associated Press
Katharine Hepburn
Blackwell
Okla
Hepburn
Oklahoma
Connecticut
New York Public Library
Cynthia McFadden
Deaths of Friedman Paul Erhardt and Khun Sa Reported
Paul Erhardt 63 the Philadelphia born chef known as Chef Tell died Friday from heart failure He was a pioneer television chef. Khun Sa 74 a Thai drug lord described as among the world’s most wanted men and as a liberation fighter died Friday No cause of death given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Friedman Paul Erhardt
Philadelphia
Tell
America
Khun Sa
Thailand
Also Mentioned on This Page
Orange
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
Sixth St
Four Oaks Smith Center
Kirkwood Blvd
Hope Lutheran Church
Bowling St
National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
16Th Ave
Linn County Administration
First St
Johnson School For the Arts
18Th St
Grant Wood
26Th St
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church
31St St
Monroe
Pioneer Ave
Erskine
36Th St
Pierce
Marilyn Dr
Wright
Hollywood Blvd
Harding Middle
Golf St
Kirkwood
Armar Dr
Marion
Peace Christian Reformed Church
C Ave
King of Kings Lutheran Church
Noelridge Christian Church
Nixon
Nixon Dr
Hiawatha
New Covenant Bible Church
46Th St. NE
Franklin Middle School
20Th St
Community of Christ
Blairs Ferry Rd
New Creation United Methodist Church
33Rd Ave
van Buren
29Th St
Moose Lodge
West Post Rd
Cleveland
First Ave
Coolidge
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
Cherry Hill Rd
Truman
Hoover
Johnson Ave
Taylor
Seventh Ave
Viola Gibson
Gibson Dr
Source
Linn County Auditor's Office
Smith
Culp Suing
L.A. Zoo
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