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• Thompson Loses Fundraiser, and Plane

  Published: November 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Thompson, Loses, Fundraiser, And, Plane, Fred Thompson Politician, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards Politician, Philip J Martin, Ron Paul, Iowa City, Iraq, Iowa, Guy Fawkes, Howard Dean, Jerome Armstrong, Arkansas, Tennessee, Abc Inc, Four Seasons Technologies, The Washington P

  The chairman of Fred Thompson's First Day Founders fundraising group has resigned after reports surfaced that he had been arrested on charges of cocaine trafficking and bookmaking in the 1980s.

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• To Robbins, Edwards Is the Star

  Published: December 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Robbins, Edwards, The, Star, Iowa, John Edwards Politician, Tim Robbins, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, James Bopp, Barack Obama, David Bossie, Indiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ann Coulter, Iowa City, Kathleen Willey, Matthew Mosk, Newt Gingrich

  Actor Tim Robbins, introducing John Edwards on Wednesday in Iowa City, came clean right away.

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• Colleen K. Solberg - Special Education Teacher Sexually Assaults Former Student

  Published: February 21, 2008, 6:13 pm

  Tags: Assault, Student, Sex, Colleen Solberg, Sexual, Iowa City, Teacher, Minor, Iowa, Collen K Solberg, Sexual Contact

  City, IA (The Weekly Vice) -- Collene K Solberg, a 38 year old special eduction teacher at Iowa City West High School was arrested and charged Feb. 21st with committing lascivious acts on a minor. Authorities contend that Solberg had sexual contact with a 17 year old male student between the months of June 2007 through September of 2007.

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• Protests, Police and Karl Rove in Iowa City

  Published: March 13, 2008, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Iowa, Iowa City, Iraq, Karl Rove, Outrage, Picketing, Politics, Protest, World

  IOWA CITY - When news broke that the University of Iowa Lecture Committee would be paying Karl Rove $40,000 to speak on the school's Student Union building on March 9, hundreds of flyers...read more

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• Iowa Flooding Rivals 1993 Deluge

  Published: June 14, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Iowa, Flooding, Rivals, 1993, Deluge, Cedar Rapids, Cedar River, Wendy Hatch, Iowa City, Kay Halloran, Denise Hatch, Minnesota, Chet Culver, Des Moines, Kevin Oliver, Boy Scouts Of America, Fema, Mississippi River, The Army National Guard, The Associated Press, The Quaker Oa

  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June 13 -- The sun finally broke through the layers of clouds on Friday, a reassuring presence after a week of rain. But as residents in and around this eastern Iowa city surveyed their waterlogged landscape, they did not like what they saw.

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• Midwest Underwater, but Some Rivers Falling

  Published: June 15, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Midwest, Underwater, But, Some, Rivers, Falling, Des Moines, Iowa City, Mike Goldberg, Bill Stowe, Cedar Rapids, Chet Culver, Ed Hutson, Mike Sheil, Steve Parrott, Iowa National Guard, Des Moines River, Bert Smith, Frank Cownie, Jackson Pollock, Linn County, Pablo Picasso, Ced

  DES MOINES, Iowa, June 14 -- Floodwaters broke through an aging levee here Saturday, swallowing a section of the city's northeast side where authorities had evacuated about 200 homes and 35 businesses, as severe flooding continued to plague the state and other parts of the Midwest.

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• President Visits Inundated Eastern Iowa

  Published: June 20, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: President, Visits, Inundated, Eastern, Iowa, George W Bush, Cedar Rapids, Fema, Iowa City, Vince Clark, Barack Obama, Chet Culver, David Garratt, Frank Bruce, John Mccain, Katherine Habley, Marine One, Minneapolis, Quincy Illinois, R David Paulison, Dan Eggen, International F

  IOWA CITY, June 19 -- President Bush helicoptered over a water-soaked stretch of eastern Iowa on Thursday, swooping low in Marine One to inspect a burst dam, collapsed bridges and saturated buildings here before landing to offer sympathy to residents struggling to cope with severe flooding that has...

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• Who Needs College When You Can Traffic Drugs?

  Published: July 12, 2008, 6:32 pm

  Tags: Iowa, Drugs, Marijuana, World, Iowa City, Dealer

  Matt graduated high school a year before his peers with a 32 ACT score and equally impressive grades. With broad secondary schooling options, he applied to universities across the...read more

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• Popular Tailgating and Campaigning Site Closed

  Published: July 27, 2008, 5:19 pm

  Tags: Blog, Iowa City

  popular tailgating sites for Iowa Hawkeye Fans is no more. Olive Court has been sold. John Kerry gets offered a beer bong, September 2006. Photo: Des Moies Register Olive Court was a popular campaign stop for presidential candidates on the caucus trail. Ron Paul spoke to a rowdy crowd last year, but the most famous event was in 2006, when John

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• Iowa City Flood Cleanup Complicated for Condominium

  Published: July 30, 2008, 3:24 pm

  Tags: Slot 3, State Government, Flood, Iowa City

  dam on the University of Iowa campus that raised flood waters above 1993 levels. The city and the Idyllwild residents are on the same page: Council’s instructions are to pursue a full buyout of these properties, said Iowa City manager Michael Lombardo. But the devil is in the details. The Idyllwild development, just across the

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• Donroy Merrival - Iowa City Man Bites Off Friend's Nose During Alchohol Fueled Argument. Nose Now Missing

  Published: July 31, 2008, 11:00 pm

  Tags: Video, Man's, Hit, Bit Off Nose, Donroy R Merrival, Shovel, Iowa City, Matthew Osing, Friends, Donroy Merrival, Nose, Man, Arrested, Off, Mug Shot, Iowa, Friend, With

  City, Iowa (The Weekly Vice) -- Donroy R. Merrival, a 40 year old Iowa man has been arrested and charged with willful injury causing serious injury on Tuesday after biting off man's nose. Nose is now missing.According to police, Merrival got into an argument with friend Matthew Osing after the two had been drinking July 24th.According to

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• In Iowa City, payday planets align on 1st of tha month'

  Published: August 1, 2008, 7:24 am

  Tags: Commentary, Economy, Slot 2, Iowa City

  of Iowa City’s larger employers — the county, the city, the state, ACT, and HyVee — pay their employees every two weeks on a Friday. The biggest by far employer, the University, pays its employees on the first of the month. About every 14 months or so, those paydays align, and everybody gets paid. And that’s today.

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• Despite Iowa law, school districts prepare for early start

  Published: August 18, 2008, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Slot 1, Slot 3, State Government, Craig Artist, Del Hoover, Iowa City Community School District, Iowa Deparstment Of Educaiton, Jeff Berger, John Putney, Lane Plugge, West Branch Community School District

  with the Iowa State Fair, August symbolizes the end of summer for Iowans, as students and teachers scramble to make final back-to-school preparations before classes start. For most districts this means an August start date, despite an Iowa law that states schools shall begin no sooner than a day during the calendar week which the first

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• Truck Theft, Sub Sandwiches and Missing Gorillas

  Published: September 3, 2008, 8:47 pm

  Tags: Unusual Crime, Burglar, Donut Shop, East Machias Maine, Florida, Gorilla, Iowa City Iowa, Outdoor Flea Market, Police Officer, Portable Toilet, Tampa

  25-year-old drunk driver in Iowa City, Iowa. Early Sunday morning a police officer sees the drunk man driving without his headlights on and pulls him over. The driver is arrested and put into the police car. While driving to the station, the man offers “free sub sandwiches” to the cop in exchange for letting him go. Apparently the

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