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UPDATE: Police Said Man Accused of Death Threats Appeared to be Targeting Homeless
A train engineer accused of threatening to kill three men in Ames last week appeared to be seeking out homeless people, police say.

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I grew up in Waterloo/Cedar Falls Iowa and studied journalism at Iowa State here in Ames.
I worked for daily newspapers as a reporter for the Fort Dodge Messenger and the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier before moving to South Carolina in 2006.
I was a staff writer for the Charleston Post & Courier in Charleston, SC until June 2011, when I took a job with Patch and returned to Iowa.
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