No arrests have been made in the shooting death of Dominique Mosby next to a patio outside an apartment along Glass Road on Friday night.
It’s not clear Mosby even lived in Cedar Rapids, and it’s not clear anyone even used the apartment where he was shot as a primary residence.
The 22-year-old victim’s family is in [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Glass Rd. murder victim may have been out-of-towner
Posted in Public Safety, tagged Adam Belz, Cedar Rapids, Cedarwood Hills, Chicago, CRPD, Dominique Mosby, Glass Road, murder, Shooting on June 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Details of Becker’s release from hospital remain clouded
Posted in Public Safety, tagged coach, Ed Thomas, football, gun, Mark Becker, Parkersburg, The Gazette on June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The mental health coordinator who was supposedly told that the sheriff’s office should be notified when Mark Becker was released from a Waterloo hospital is Bob Lincoln.
The Butler County Sheriff’s Office says it was not notified, and the hospital, Covenant Medical Center, says it was not asked to notify the sheriff’s office.
Becker shot Aplington-Parkersburg Head [...]
Would-be midnight intruder gets seven days
Posted in Courts, tagged Cedar Rapids, criminal trespass, CRPD, Daniel Kvidahl, Iowa, Sara Marino, stalking on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Daniel Kvidahl, the man who has been scaring the dickens out of his neighbor over the past six months by trying to get into her home in the middle of the night, will serve six days and six hours in jail after pleading guilty to criminal trespass and public intoxication for a March 31 incident.
Kvidahl [...]
Supes to ask city about federal courthouse
Posted in County Government on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Linn County Board of Supervisors said they will send a letter to the city on Friday asking if the federal courthouse on First Avenue East will be available as a “potential location” for the juvenile courts system.
Juvenile courts were permanently driven out of the basement of the Linn County Courthouse by last year’s flood, [...]
13 commute using county vehicles
Posted in County Government, tagged Linn County, Cedar Rapids, Emergency Management Agency, Marion, Iowa, Conservation, Engineer, Public Health on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thirteen non-sheriff’s office county officials use county vehicles to commute to and from work – five from conservation, five from the engineer’s office, two from the emergency management agency and one from public health.
Iowa law allows this, as long as the government employee reports that he or she uses a public vehicle for their commute, [...]
Looking for a steal in delinquent properties
Posted in County Government on June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I spent yesterday morning at the annual Linn County tax sale, and wrote about it for today’s paper.
It was a little monotonous to listen to Treasurer Mike Stevenson, in a bored voice, call out the properties and the bidding numbers for about two hours. But it’s a serious business, and some 75 people showed up [...]
Where are Section 8 housing vouchers used in C.R.?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cedar Rapids, Gazette, Iowa, Public Safety on June 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There’s a huge cluster in Wellington Heights. Here’s the map:
Section 8 Housing Map
Palo woman honors “angels” who helped her rebuild
Posted in Flood, tagged Cedar Rapids, Flood, Flood of 2008, Iowa, Palo, Sandy Wood, The Gazette on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sandy Wood’s home in Palo was flooded in 2008. The water was three feet deep on the first floor. Above is a picture of her, in her remodeled living room, with two objects of special significance for her.
The board with all the names on it is a piece that she asked every volunteer who worked [...]
Portrait of Tonch Weldon
Posted in Public Safety, tagged Amy Gephart, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Iowa County, Marengo, Tonch Weldon on June 9, 2009 | 32 Comments »
That picture’s from Tonch Weldon’s MySpace page.
The man charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Amy Gephart offers a few other clues about himself on the web page.
“I am the best guy in the world until you start pushing my buttons or screwing with my people,” he said.
“I am also a die [...]
A lesbian, but not a “known” one
Posted in Public Safety, tagged Adam Belz, Amy Gephart, Cedar Rapids, Gazette, Iowa, lesbian on June 9, 2009 | 9 Comments »
My editor has posted a blog item stating that it was a poor way to put it when I wrote that Amy L. Gephart was a “known lesbian.” Considering the multitude of objections to the phrase, I agree with him. It has distracted and detracted from a story that I worked hard on and was [...]
