GOMERS

GUILTY PLEA: Former state senator Kent Sorenson, of Milo, pleaded guilty last week to a federal charge of concealing campaign expenditures. Sorenson resigned from his seat last fall after being accused of violating Iowa Senate rules and making false statements to investigators in an ethics probe.

UNIVERSITY ASSAULT: The fall semester has barely begun, and already University of Iowa officials have had to issue a campuswide warning of a student-reported incident of sexual assault. Statistics show women are at increased risk of sexual assault during the first few months of their college careers. This announcement further underscores the urgent need to find solutions to this too common and persistent public safety threat.

CAMERA FIGHT: Cedar Rapids city officials received notice from the Department of Transportation that two of the city's traffic enforcement cameras are too close to signs indicating speed limit changes, in violation of new state rules.

City officials say the notice won't affect operation of the cameras and have no plans to refund any of the 40,670 tickets that have been issued to motorists since February, when the new rules took effect.

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