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updated: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:12 pm

Waterloo Metro News

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14 hrs ago | Associated Content

Iowa Voters Concerns as the Presidential Election Nears

According to the Sioux City Journal and the Waterloo Courier Newspapers, Iowa voters are concerned about the effects on their families who have military overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: Parkersburg, IA, Waterloo, IA, Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Telegraph Herald

- Fister appointed chief judge in the First Judicial District

The First Judicial District, headquartered in Dubuque, has a new top judge. Jon C. Fister, of Waterloo, Iowa, will succeed Chief Judge Alan L. Pearson, who will retire at the end of July.

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Related Topix: Waterloo, IA, University of Iowa

The Johnson County Sun

Misspending, fraud alleged in school audit

Matt Frye/Liberty Tribune Former Liberty Public Schools Superintendent Phil Wright announces that he will file a lawsuit against the Liberty school district for the total amount he would have made during the ...

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Related Topix: Cedar Falls, IA

Thu Jul 17, 2008

ArgusLeader.com

Thieves hit flooded homes in Waterloo

WATERLOO, Iowa - Residents of a Waterloo neighborhood ruined by flooding have been hit again.

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Related Topix: Waterloo, IA, Natural Disasters, Flood

Tue Jul 15, 2008

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...

Bill aims to help railroads rebuild

WATERLOO, Iowa - Railroads could get a break on loans to repair flood-damaged bridges in Iowa if a bill proposed by two Iowa congressmen gains congressional approval.

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Related Topix: Columbus Junction, IA, Omaha, NE Metro, Natural Disasters, Flood, Waterloo, IA

Sun Jul 13, 2008

News.ncmonline.com

Interpreting the Largest ICE Raid in U.S. History: A Personal Account

Editor's Note: A Spanish-language interpreter in Postville, Iowa battled with his own ethical decisions about how to stay neutral during the largest single-site raid in U.S. history.

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Related Topix: Waterloo, IA, Postville, IA

Sat Jul 12, 2008

The Topeka Capital-Journal

Shipping delays remain as Midwest floodwaters ease

Shipments of coal and other freight in the Midwest are still being delayed almost a month after record-breaking floods decimated the landscape from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Hannibal, Mo.

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Related Topix: Omaha, NE Metro, Waterloo, IA

Fri Jul 11, 2008

International Herald Tribune

An interpreter speaking up for migrants

WATERLOO, Iowa : In 23 years as a certified Spanish interpreter for U.S. courts, Erik Camayd-Freixas has spoken up in criminal trials many times, but the words he uttered were rarely his own.

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Related Topix: Waterloo, IA, Immigration Reform

Thu Jul 10, 2008

WisInfo

Clare A. Jacobsmeier

Clare Anne Jacobsmeier, 63, died peacefully June 21, 2008, in the care of Hospice after a lengthy illness.

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Related Topix: Black Hawk County, IA, Waterloo, IA

Tue Jul 08, 2008

Amateur Wrestling News at WrestlingPo...

Flood Damage at Gable Museum Makes An Impression

It's one thing to read about the flood damage to the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute and Museum, but it's another thing altogether to witness it - and to smell it.

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Related Topix: Waterloo, IA, Weather

Sun Jul 06, 2008

WQAD-TV Moline

Floods delay Waterloo renovations

Parents concerned over suspended vaccinations More fans means more fun Rose Lawn cemetery owner fails to pay back victims Rose Lawn Memorial Estates may have been targeting veterans and their families when it ...

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Related Topix: Waterloo, IA

Fri Jul 04, 2008

KTIV-TV Sioux City

Body found in Cedar River ID'd as missing man

Last year on August 12, Micheal Brosnahan, 51, of Perry, Iowa is struck and killed by a boater on West Lake Okoboji.

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Related Topix: Perry, IA, Okoboji, IA, Sioux City, IA, Waterloo, IA

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Associated Content

Motel 6 in Dayton Iowa Decent Prices Good Accommodations

It started with a phone call, or to be more precise, three or four phone calls. The conversation started something like this: "How close are you to Dyersville, Iowa?" The answers varied, but right off the bat ...

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Related Topix: Dayton, IA, Dyersville, IA, Waterloo, IA, Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro

Mon Jun 30, 2008

Chicago Sun-Times

Accused pipe bomber may be released from jail

A man known as "The Bishop," accused of mailing pipe bombs and threatening letters, could be let out of jail as he awaits trial if a lower judge's ruling is upheld.

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Related Topix: Cedar Falls, IA, Sports

Fri Jun 27, 2008

KAAL-TV Austin

Police Search for Origin of Journal Copy

There's a strange twist in the investigation of missing anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit.

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Related Topix: Waterloo, IA

Wed Jun 25, 2008

The Messenger

Iowa News

The Mason City Globe Gazette has the personal journal of a television anchorwoman missing since 1995.

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Related Topix: Mason City, IA, Iowa, Waterloo, IA

Tue Jun 24, 2008

KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids

Twelve Injured in Black Hawk County Accident

Officials say an 11-year-old girl is dead in a two-vehicle accident which injured 11 others north of Waterloo.

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Related Topix: Black Hawk County, IA, Waterloo, IA, Dunkerton, IA, Cedar Falls, IA

Sun Jun 22, 2008

WICU 12

Volunteers Leave to Help With Disaster Relief

Local volunteers are now on their way to help flood and tornado victims in the mid-west. Thousands of people are displaced after the Mississippi River flooded its banks, and caused a lot of damage in the ...

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Related Topix: Cedar Falls, IA, Weather

Fri Jun 20, 2008

News.ncmonline.com

After Iowa Raid, Families in Limbo

They while away the long hours behind drawn shutters, in front of televisions tuned to Spanish-language soap operas.

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Related Topix: Waterloo, IA

Thu Jun 19, 2008

Hartford Courant

Just How Natural Is This Disaster?

As the Cedar River rose higher and higher, and as he stacked sandbags along the levee protecting downtown Cedar Falls, Iowa, Kamyar Enshayan, a college professor and city council member, kept asking himself the ...

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Related Topix: Cedar Falls, IA, Iowa, Agriculture, Science

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