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Coach’s final moments haunt teenage witnesses; Firsthand account by student who was talking to Coach Ed Thomas

Coach’s final moments haunt teenage witnesses
[Mark] Becker reached into his clothing, pulled out a gun, and aimed it in the direction of the teen and the coach. [Brandon] Simkins…told the magazine he took a step back and dropped his head. He said he heard a bang that sounded like a dropped barbell. When he opened [...]

TV interview with teen witness to Parkersburg shooting

15-year-old Witnesses Coach/Teacher Shooting
Coach Thomas was shot Wednesday morning, during a weight lifting session.
Several students were in the room when it happened, and saw it all.
CBS 2’s Jamie Oberg spoke with one student who was there. …
15-year-old Witnesses Coach/Teacher Shooting

Friends baffled by downward spiral that gripped Ed Thomas murder suspect Mark Becker

Friends baffled by downward spiral that gripped Becker
There were failed attempts at college, minor dust-ups with the law, and trouble with drugs and alcohol. At 24, he was a cook at a Cedar Falls pizza restaurant and no longer the friendly “cute guy” from his days at Aplington-Parkersburg High School. …

University of Iowa settles open records lawsuit; UI Presidential Search Committee was sued in 2007

UI settles open records lawsuit
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University of Iowa settles open records lawsuit
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - The University of Iowa has settled a lawsuit over violations of the state’s open meetings law during its search for a new president.
Harold Hammond, a professor emeritus of oral pathology, radiology and medicine, filed the lawsuit in 2007, claiming the [...]

Ex-Norwalk teacher who pursued relationship with student ordered to jail

Ex-Norwalk teacher who had affair with student ordered to jail
Ryan Christopher Janssen, 32, was found guilty last year of lascivious acts with a minor in connection with an affair that began two years ago when the girl was 16. Janssen was put on probation for a year and could have had the conviction erased …

Man claims to be Iowan’s missing child from 1955; Jerry Damman and son Stephen in 1950s Gazettes

Iowa man wonders if mystery visitor is missing son

MELANIE S. WELTE
Associated Press Writer
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — When a mysterious visitor showed up last fall at Jerry Damman’s Iowa farm, there wasn’t any reason for him to suspect it was the toddler son who long ago vanished from a stroller in front of a New York [...]

80-year-old NW Iowa man meets each year with his kindergarten teacher, 99

Teacher-student bond intact after 75 years
Edmund Herke … continues to learn a thing or two from his kindergarten teacher. The 80-year-old man from Emmetsburg, Iowa, has made a point to reunite with his first teacher each year for the past 10 years. Herke met his teacher, Lloyd Tinkle, 99, of Sioux City, for lunch Tuesday [...]

Class of 1929 pair celebrates 80th high school reunion

Class of 1929 celebrates 80th high school reunion
Dorothy Ott Fischer and classmate Floren Knox Cranston Shultz, both 97, met as high school freshman…When the daughter asked how it was her mom and two friends (Hilda Moore Wagner couldn’t make it Saturday) were the last members of the Class of 1929, Dorothy told her, “We’re tough.” [...]

University of Iowa Hospital layoffs could bump others at UI from their jobs

University of Iowa Hospital layoffs could bump others from their jobs
“Bumping,” as it is called, gives a qualified AFSCME employee the right to the position of someone with less experience in the same job classification. …