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Government

(Steve Pope/The Gazette)
James Q. Lynch

A key legislative leader on education reform is “very optimistic” a conference committee working out differences between lawmakers and the governor will reach ...

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Public Safety

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KCCI.com

Via KCCI.com:Authorities are asking for the public's help to find a girl abducted Monday in northern Iowa.Kathlynn Shepard, 15, has been missing since ...

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Education

SIGNS DAILY.012600.BSO-- The Iowa Department of Transportation will supply Iowa City with more than 340  fluorescent yellow green school crossing signs like this one as part of a statewide effort to replace older yellow signs with the new, more noticable color. The signs will be installed this summer around the city's elementary schools.
Gregg Hennigan

IOWA CITY – The Iowa City school district will not go after a federal grant that would help pay for police officers in ...

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Flood Recovery

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Dave Franzman, reporter

Another bit of Depression-era art hidden away for decades will soon go on display again inside the council chambers at Cedar Rapids’ city ...

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Video

Open-air reading of 'War and Peace'
Karuna Ang

At 9 a.m. sharp, Dr. Sean O'Harrow, director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art, started the open-air reading of Tolstoy's 'War ...

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