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UPDATED: Paper runs false obit mentioning wrong hospital and fake cemetery

On Thursday, December 29, a man walked into the offices of the Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier and handed in an obituary for 17 year-old Daniel “D.J.” Reddout. The obituary ran the next day. As the Courier would later explain, “The item said the West High student passed away at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Dec. [...]