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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 2006
Page
2
Front page items report rising homicide numbers in Davenport contrasted with declining rates across Iowa. The day also notes an expected official announcement on a rainforest site, a Waterloo artist spraying graffiti recreating Michelangelo, and a shooting incident outside a southwest Cedar Rapids Wal-Mart.
A gunman held six girls hostage at Bailey High School, using them as shields for hours before fatally wounding a student and killing himself as SWAT teams closed in. Authorities say six girls were taken hostage during the incident.
About 50 current members and alumnae watched as a demolition crew tore down the 116 year old Alpha Chi Omega house at 828 E Washington St five and a half months after an April tornado damaged the building.
University of Iowa players Mike Henderson and Tyler Smith face fifth degree theft charges after shoplifting clothes from Dillard s at Coral Ridge Mall. Athletics Director Gary Barta, coach Steve Alford and a faculty representative will confer on punishment.
The Gazette previews Lost season three with hints about the island mystery and a first look at Henry Gale, played by Michael Emerson from Toledo Iowa. The clip appears in Featured AP Videos at GazetteOnline.com and includes spoiler cautions.
The Gazette publishes daily from Cedar Rapids Iowa with postal and subscription details. It lists delivery and mail rates for various editions and regions and provides contact numbers for subscription service and general inquiries.
Public notice lists contact options for Gazette staff and directs readers to the Cedar Rapids directory and GazetteOnline for email addresses and circulation information.
The Gazette highlights use of soybean ink to support agriculture and encourages readers to recycle newspapers at City Carton on Ingleside Drive SW or other local recycling sites.
Jim Mullen recalls buying a scrapbook filled with hotel stationery from the 1930s and later adding his own blank pages. The diary like collection hints at a grand tour or spy tale, with letters about Miss Evelyn and Miss Anna, but the pages mostly tell a quiet, humorous travel story about cheap keepsakes and plastic keys.
Saudi Arabia plans a 560 mile border fence with Iraq as part of a 12 billion dollar security package including sensors bases and physical barriers. Nawaf Obaid of the National Security Assessment Project says the barrier aims to curb cross border terrorism and shield the kingdom from external threats amid Iraq’s sectarian violence.
Iowa Rep. Jim Leach backed the national intelligence report asserting terrorism threats rise with the Iraq war. Challenger Dave Loebsack urged immediate start of U.S. troop withdrawal, while Leach urged a defined timetable to disengage and promote Iraqi self-rule.
American forces killed eight people including four women during a raid on a suspected terrorist's house northeast of Baghdad. Relatives dispute the claim that the dead were linked to terrorists. A new poll shows most Iraqis want U S forces to leave.
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