News Headlines for Albia, Iowa

Iowa Republicans: Elect GOP, limit property taxes (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Republicans promised Monday that if voters give them control of the Iowa House, they will clamp down on increases in school property taxes and cut other spending.

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Longhorns sports roundup: Women's soccer defeats Iowa State (Austin American-Statesman)
Freshman Lucy Keith scored the game-winning goal in the 63rd minute Sunday at Myers Stadium as the UT women's soccer team beat Iowa State 2-1 for its first Big 12 Conference win of the season.

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DNR investigates fish kill in southeast Iowa (The Des Moines Register)
NEW LONDON, Iowa - State environmental officials are investigating a fish kill near New London in southeast Iowa.

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Iowa City Reviews Mitigation Plans (KCRG-TV9 Cedar Rapids)
A special city council meeting in Iowa City is underway tonight to discuss how to protect neighborhoods from future flooding. At 5:30 p.m. this evening discussions started at city hall about how to spend two million dollars in Jumpstart Iowa grants.

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Iowa GOP running on 'change' agenda in next month's election (The Gazette)
DES MOINES and#8212; Minority House Republicans are running on a change agenda in next month's election, a top GOP leader said today.House GOP Leader Christopher Rants said Republicans are pledging to freeze the property tax share of school funding and put Iowa's right-to-work law in the state constitution if they are returned to the majority in the 2008 election.Currently, there are 53 ...

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Phone scam in Iowa leads to a flurry of calls (KTTC Rochester)
The Cerro Gordo County Sheriff's Office is reporting that a North Iowa Credit Union fraud has moved to a new level.

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Officials investigate explosion in northeast Iowa (KWWL Iowa)
BLUFFTON, Iowa (AP) - State and federal authorities are investigating an explosion last month of a stream gauge building along the Upper Iowa River in northeast Iowa.

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Officials investigate explosion in northeast Iowa (WHO-TV 13 Des Moines)
Associated Press - October 6, 2008 7:54 PM ET BLUFFTON, Iowa (AP) - State and federal authorities are investigating an explosion last month of a stream gauge building along the Upper Iowa River...

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Iowa State seeks to end road losing streak (WHO-TV 13 Des Moines)
Associated Press - October 6, 2008 2:34 PM ET AMES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa State is getting ready to take another shot at ending its long losing streak on the road.

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Man Dead After Early Morning Car Crash Along Iowa Park Road (KFDX Wichita Falls)
Wichita Falls police say 33-year-old Robert Benjamin Gambrell died this morning after an SUV struck the passenger side of his vehicle at the intersection of Wellington and Iowa Park Road.

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