Gomers: What's going wrong

INAPPROPRIATE: We're with people who object to people using the Johnson County Wildlife Area near Johnston for sexual exploits. Gay or straight, a public area is no place for private acts.

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DRAWING A LINE: Cedar Rapids firefighters have walked the line since early Wednesday in controlling the suspicious fire at the old Sinclair packing plant property the city purchased in 2006. Six weeks ago, an engineering report deemed the mostly empty structure deficient. Saving the building wasn't worth the safety risk, fire officials decided. Meantime, lots of manpower and time has been spent for 24-hour monitoring.

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DEADLY FALLS: Three Corridor area people fell to their deaths last week: a patient who fell from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics parking ramp, a homeless man who toppled from a new building in Iowa City and a Cedar Rapids resident who dropped 21 stories from his apartment.

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BAD STORMS: July storms brought severe damage to Black Hawk, Delaware and Fayette counties - more than 331,000 acres of crops were pummeled.