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Woman hit by tree limb in serious condition
Found: 3 Weeks 1 Day 15 Hours 35 Minutes ago
The Gazette - Tera Lynn Bennett has been identified as the Anamosa woman injured when a tree limb fell on her head during a picnic in Wapsipinicon State Park.She remained in serious condition at University Hospitals in Iowa City on Saturday.On Friday, Bennett, 27, was sitting with Brandon Hoff, 31, of Anamosa at a picnic table under a hard maple when a 9-foot limb fell, striking her in the head, officials said.Bennett was taken to Jones Regional Medical Center in Anamosa and later airlifted to University Hospitals....
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Found: 3 Weeks 2 Days 1 Hour 3 Minutes ago
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Woman injured when tree limb falls on her head
Found: 3 Weeks 3 Days 1 Hour 9 Minutes ago
KWQC 6 News - Associated Press - September 19, 2008 7:44 PM ET ANAMOSA, Iowa (AP) - An Anamosa woman was seriously injured Friday when a tree limb fell on her at Wapsipinicon State Park.
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Cedar Rapids police make arrest in beating death
Found: 3 Weeks 6 Days 8 Hours 3 Minutes ago
WOI 5 News - Associated Press - September 16, 2008 6:54 PM ET CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - Cedar Rapids police say a man has been charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of another man last......
Police make murder arrest in beating death
Found: 3 Weeks 6 Days 8 Hours 18 Minutes ago
The Gazette - Police arrested Jason Blackcloud, 34, today on charges he fatally assaulted Jerry Hurt on the corner of Second Avenue and 14th Street SE on Aug. 26.Blackcloud appeared this afternoon in court at Kirkwood Community College. He was charged with first-degree murder and is being held in the Anamosa prison, where he will remain until an arraignment.Police said Hurt, 46, of 1507 Washington Ave. SE, was walking on 14th Street SE toward Second Avenue about 3:15 p.m. on Aug. 26 when a man on a bicycle came up to him. The man got off the bike, picked up a piece of pipe from the street, hit Hurt in the head and rode away, police said.Hurt was taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where he later died.Initially, no witnesses to Hurt's attack came forward to police because of what residents in Wellington Heights call a "don't snitch" mentality.Cedar Rapids police Chief Greg Graham, however, said community support solving this case encouraged him, according to a news release."Because we had witnesses from the neighborhood willing to come forward, they have made their neighborhood a safer place to live," Graham said."We can live in fear by shutting our eyes and our mouths when crime occurs and it will continue to occur. But by coming forward, telling the police what we see, what we hear, it is a loud and clear statement to the criminals that we are not going to let them commit crimes."...
Wet night leads to slippery results
Found: 4 Weeks 1 Day 21 Hours 23 Minutes ago
The Gazette - The unrelenting rain that fell all across the state Friday night produced a lot of low-scoring games and oddball results.A Class 3A District 7 game between Ballard and Dallas Center-Grimes at Grimes ended with DC-G winning 6-0 and#8212; in double overtime. No points were scored in regulation or the first OT.But one of the strangest finals came out of Bellevue, where North-Linn beat host Bellevue, 3-2. No, it didn't go extra innings.Bellevue (1-2) took a 2-0 lead on a safety in the second quarter and North-Linn (2-1) took the lead for good when junior Mike Meischeid booted a 25-yard field goal in the third period. Both teams had trouble establishing their offenses in the wet conditions and the field took a beating."It was pretty bad," North-Linn Coach Jared Collum said. "They played the JV game ahead of time and we got out on the field and it was pretty tore up. But they did a good job of pinning us in the first half. I don't think we ever got (beyond) our 25."The Lynx forced the Comets into five turnovers on the rain-drenched night and#8212; four fumbles and an interception."That was pretty much the name of the game right there," Collum said.The Lynx rushed for 92 yards and passed for another 33, and the Comets ended up with 188 total yards."We've moved the ball pretty well," Collum said. "We put 29 points on Tripoli and we scored 14 against Cascade. (Friday night) was pretty much the field conditions."And a fine defensive effort. In addition to kicking the winning field goal, Meischeid was credited with 22 tackles and recovered a fumble.The game in Bellevue wasn't the only one affected by the weather. In a Class 3A battle of top 10s between No. 3 Marion (2-1) and No. 6 DeWitt Central (3-0) at Marion, neither team could generate much offense in Central's 10-7 win.Marion averaged 33 points in its first two wins, Central 28."It was a huge factor," Marion Coach Tony Perkins said of the rain. "We had such a strong (nondistrict schedule) and then you get this kind of stuff and you can't run the whole offense you've got. But we'll be back."Tri-County topped Lamoni, 20-12, in an eight-man game at Lamoni, pretty low scoring for eight-man."What a night for football," Tri-county Coach Scott Edmundson said. "We struggled with the QB-center exchange several times because of the rain, which slowed down our offensive production."Union madeUnion Community is playing its first season in 3A and blanked Mount Vernon, 14-0, in its 3A-4 opener Friday. The Knights have been unscored upon in the last 10 quarters.They beat Webster City and Independence in nondistrict games and play at winless Anamosa on Friday."They're very unselfish," Union second-year Coach Joe Hadachek said of his team. "They don't care who makes the play. We're very diverse offensively and we'll take whatever the defense gives us."Union has been led by running backs Ryan Christensen and Tad Talaska, quarterback Garrett Woodson and wide receiver Jared Wauters. Defensively, linebackers Matt Feuerbach and Josh Dunkelberger have led the charge.Playing in 3A-4 means having to tee it up against the likes of DeWitt Central, Marion and Benton Community, all top-10 ranked."We're David versus Goliath but you get the cards your dealt," said Hadachek, who has coached at Drake and Buena Vista. "We're going to go out there and get after it."Quick slantsn ESPN's prime time newsmagazine "E: 60" will air a feature story on the Aplington-Parkersburg football team Tuesday at 6 p.m. Four NFL players from the area and#8212; Brad Meester, Jared DeVries, Casey Wiegmann and Aaron Kampman and#8212; will be featured, as will Coach Ed Thomas.n Linn-Mar ended its 24-game losing streak, and Nevada and Manson-Northwest Webster also ended long droughts. Nevada broke a 14-game streak and Manson-Northwest Webster broke a string of 12 straight losses.n Cherokee's Tyler Jones passed for 141 yards and a TD in a loss Friday night and became Iowa's all-time passing leader with 7,789 yards, besting the mark Keokuk's James Vandenberg set last year.n Contact the writer: (319) 368-8841 or jeff.dahn@gazcomm.com...
Cascade sneaks by Beckman, 10-7
Found: 1 Month 12 Hours 39 Minutes ago
The Gazette - CASCADE and#8212; The Cascade Cougars are beginning to find out who they are.Who they are appears to be a pretty good football team.Evan Ressler scored on a bruising 6-yard run with 34 seconds left, and Cascade moved to 3-0 with a 10-7 victory over rival Dyersville Beckman last night in a rainy, muddy Iowa Class 2A District 4 opener.The Cougars, who graduated several key players from last year's 7-3 team, beat North-Linn and Class 3A Anamosa the first two weeks. Last night, they added to their victims a Beckman team coming off a victory over highly regarded Class 3A West Delaware.Cascade hopes the victory propels it on the way toward the school's first playoff berth since 1990."This gives us motivation," said Cougars senior running back/linebacker Matt McCullough, who rushed for 147 yards on 30 carries. "We came in the first two weeks not really knowing where we stood, but I think this shows we can do things if we put it together."Despite trouble with the hold in the wet conditions, Cascade's Nate Trumm converted a 32-yard field goal on the game's first drive.The score stayed there until Beckman quarterback Daniel Thole scored on a 16-yard scamper late in the third period.Each team committed a turnover in the fourth quarter before ground-oriented Cascade's winning drive, on which quarterback Connor Redmond completed crucial passes to Trumm and McCullough to set up Ressler's winning run.Beckman, which fell to 1-2, 0-1, was unable to capitalize on three first-half miscues by the Cougars and#8212; a fumble, a failed fake punt and a bad snap on fourth down.The Trailblazers also saw a touchdown pass slip away on fourth-and-7 from the Cascade 7 midway through the third quarter....
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Man arrested in phone sex exploitation case
Found: 1 Month 2 Days 4 Hours 26 Minutes ago
The Gazette - A Center Point man accused of sending nude photos of himself by cell phone to a 12-year-old boy in Colorado and#8212; and receiving some of the boy in return and#8212; is in custody awaiting extradition on felony sex charges.Nathan D. Hepker, 34, has been under investigation by the Mesa County Sheriff's Office in Grand Junction, Colo., since November 2007, said Heather Benjamin, Mesa County Sheriff's public information officer.Numerous sexually explicit picture messages sent from Hepker's cell phone number containing frontal male nudity were found on the boy's cell phone that month by his mother, who called authorities, Benjamin said. The boy told deputies that he came in contact with Hepker in September 2007 while playing a game on his phone that connected to the Internet.The boy said Hepker sent a text message to him asking how old he was, and he told him he was in seventh grade. Hepker started sending him picture messages that included male nudity, and the boy told deputies he sent Hepker nude pictures of himself in return because he felt "pressured." The Sheriff's Office obtained both parties' cell phone records, which showed three phone calls and more than 40 text or picture messages sent between the two numbers.When questioned by investigators June 5, Hepker said he did not recognize copies of the pictures sent to his phone from the boy's phone.Hepker, a Cedar Rapids department store worker, was arrested in Cedar Rapids on Monday on a fugitive from justice charge. The Mesa County Sheriff's Office is accusing him of sexual exploitation of children, Internet sexual exploitation of a child and obscenity involving a minor.Hepker is being held at the Anamosa State Penitentiary on $13,000 bond until an arrest warrant is issued and he is extradited to Colorado. His next court hearing is Nov. 7....
Suspect in Weber slaying dies in prison
Found: 1 Month 3 Days 3 Hours 50 Minutes ago
Newton Daily News - The second of two men charged in the 1986 stabbing death of Colfax resident Karen Weber has died of natural causes while serving another sentence at Anamosa State Penitentiary, Iowa Department of Corrections officials announced Tuesday....
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