Cedar Rapids charter schools win state start-up grants
Three Cedar Rapids charter schools are among 11 statewide recipients of up to 500000 each through the Iowa Charter Start Up and Expansion Grant program funded by the American Rescue Plan. Empowering Excellence Charter School at 1800 First Ave NE will use funds to create opportunities for at risk teens pursuing diplomas.
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Des Moines
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Union
Hamburg Charter School
Hamburg
Horizon Science Academy
West Central Charter High
Iowa plane crash kills four in Indiana cornfield
A single engine Piper PA-46 from Iowa to Anderson crashed Friday in a central Indiana cornfield killing all four aboard. The aircraft left Fort Dodge after 6:45 a.m. and was en route to Anderson Municipal Airport when it went down during approach, with witnesses noting a nose dive. NTSB leads investigation as FAA confirms four aboard with no survivors.
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Indiana
Fort Dodge
Anderson Municipal
Indianapolis
Darwin Dwiggins
Madison
Federal Aviation Administration
Dwiggins
National Transportation Safety Board
NTSB
Cedar Rapids man charged in fatal road rage case
Shawn Patrick Steele, 47, of Cedar Rapids, is charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and operating while under the influence in a fatal Hiawatha road rage incident five months earlier. Tommy Thomas, 52, died after engaging with Steele on April 2. Steele fled the scene but was later stopped. Thomas had followed Steele and both vehicles moved between North Center Point Road and North 12th Avenue. The complaint notes Thomas was the aggressor, while Steele’s blood alcohol level was 0.146.
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Hiawatha
Shawn Patrick Steele
Steele
Tommy Thomas
North Center Point Road
North 12Th Avenue
Thomas
Lyndhurst Drive
Interstate 380
Linn County Sheriffs
Iowa stays at low unemployment tax rate for third year
Iowa employers will continue paying the lowest possible unemployment insurance tax, set at 0 to 7 percent in the state’s eight-rate table. Gov. Reynolds touted fiscal prudence and workforce programs as contributing to a strong fund position while July unemployment held at 2.8 percent, below the national rate of 4.3 percent. Flags will be flown at half staff in honor of Pearl Harbor victim Everett C. Titterington. Andrew Smith appointed district court judge in Judicial District 3A, replacing John M. Sandy.
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Iowa Court of Appeals
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O’brien
Osceola
Palo Alto
Cedar Rapids man charged in sex abuse of two children
Delbert Dean Grimm, 80, faces two counts of second-degree sexual abuse. A 5-year-old and a 6-year-old told family and St Luke's Child Protection Center interviewers that Grimm touched them on separate occasions, one in January and one in June. A no contact order exists for both children. Grimm held in Linn County Jail on $50,000 cash-only bond.
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Delbert Dean Grimm
St. Luke’s
Grimm
Linn County
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