Lipizzans Impress With Classical Dressage at U.S. Cellular Center
Lipizzan Stallions and riders staged a two hour show in Cedar Rapids with 1000 fans, presenting dressage, military drills and Airs Above the Ground to Mozart and Bizet. Narrator Troy Tinker explained history as horses from Austria and Piber Royal Crown stock dazzled in multi horse sequences and a grand quadrille.
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Mozart
Strauss
Bizet
Troy Tinker
Spanish Riding School of
Vienna
White Stallions
Florida
Royal Crown of Piber
Amanda LaRae Larkin
the Gazette
U.S. Cellular Center
Cedar Rapids
Levee repair costs surge from outdated rock protection
Iowa county faces a 1.7 million repair bill for riprap gaps along a Little Sioux River levee near Smithland. Officials say decades of insufficient funding left the 400 acres of cropland protected by the levee vulnerable and costly to fix. The Army Corps has questioned the county's expenditure case.
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Smithland
Woodbury County
Little Sioux
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Wisconsin man pleads guilty in child sex case
Todd W. Orth from Madison Wisconsin admitted meeting a 14 year old girl online in December 2007 and traveling to Iowa in June to have sex. He pleaded guilty to interstate travel with intent to commit criminal sexual activity and faces up to 30 years in prison and a 250000 dollar fine. He remains jailed pending sentencing.
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Wisconsin
Associated Press
Todd W. Orth
Madison
Wis
Iowa
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Orth
Teens confess to burglaries across five Iowa cities
Fort Dodge police say two teens confessed to 39 burglaries across five central Iowa cities over the past two weeks. $10,000 worth of goods were found at one teen’s home. Names not released.
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Fort Dodge
Iowa
Kevin Doty
Webster County
Ames
Storm Lake
Buena Vista
Dubuque Drops in National Small-City Ranking
The Milken Institute and Greenstreet Partners index slid Dubuque from 39th to 54th among small cities amid slow job growth from 2007 to 2008. Major employers John Deere Dubuque Works and Flexsteel cut or shifted jobs, while data revisions raise questions about earlier growth figures.
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Dubuque
Milken Institute
Greenstreet Partners
Kim Soojung
John Deere Dubuque Works
Flexsteel Industries
Rick Dickinson
Greater Dubuque Development Corp
John Deere
Iowa
Waterloo
Davenport
Flexsteel
Milken
Dickinson
Midland
Texas
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
Bend
Ore
St. George
Utah
Grand Junction
Colo
West Liberty weighs ban on owning pit bulls
West Liberty officials consider a city council proposal to ban pit bulls after multiple aggressive dog incidents. Police Chief P J Brewer cites cases including a family trapped in a car and a dog biting a person, with the move supported by city leadership and animal control input.
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Ue Gazette
West Liberty
P.J. Brewer
Chris Ward
Ward
Bill Sueppel
Brewer
Alan Kemp
Iowa League of Cities
Iowa
Kemp
Andrea Kilkenny
Iowa City
Coralville
Kilkenny
Cedar Rapids
Samantha Miller
Gazcomm.com
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FACC
Pat Hurley
Tammy Koolbeck
Court News
Daniel Hansen
AuDigelee of Audiology
Colleges and Universities
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AllHeartStaffing.com
Center Point
Rane
Koester
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Key City
Animal Cave
Mily
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