Police have arrested an Oelwein man in connection with the theft of $13,000 from a Boy Scout troop in Jesup. Twenty-one-year-old Jason Cole is charged with first-degree theft and third-degree burglary. The money was stolen on July 9 during the Jesup Farmers Day celebration. Scoutmaster Kyle Troyer told Radio Iowa the Boy Scouts had a […]Powered by WPeMatico
Lee County has a brand, spankin’ new barbecue joint, and early indications are that patrons are glad to have one so close to home. Fat Jimmy’s catering owner and proprietor James Stewart has been cooking barbecue for roughly a decade and he spoke about how he got into the food industry. James, who is a pipe welder by trade, and his wife Kim had a loyal clientele and were kept […]
HBO/Macall B. Polay (LOS ANGELES) -- Even some successful shows can have trouble maintaining momentum for the duration of their runs, but that can't be said for HBO's award winning Game of Thrones. The Season 7 finale actually bested its own ratings record Sunday night, pulling in 12.1 million viewers, according to Entertainment Weekly. In a day and age when most people DVR their favorite shows and watch them long after they […]
Disney/ABC Home Entertainment and TV Distribution/Pawel Kaminski(NEW YORK) -- On Live with Kelly and Ryan Monday, Ryan Seacrest welcomed Keeping up with the Kardashians star Kim Kardashian West as his guest co-host. Kardashian West got serious about working on the reality show -- which Seacrest executive-produces -- explaining the episodes dealing with her harrowing jewelry robbery in Paris, and her once-stepdad, Bruce Jenner, transitioning to Caitlyn, were the toughest to shoot. "I just thought, […]
ABC/Ida Mae Astute (LOS ANGELES) -- Kevin Hart is giving back in a major way, and is asking his celebrity friends to do the same. In an Instagram post on Sunday night, Hart challenged some of his famous friends to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey by matching his donation of $25,000 the American Red Cross. “I think we’ve participated in a lot of challenges on the internet. Some meaningful, some meaningless, but […]
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- HBO has formally picked up Robert Downey Jr.’s reboot of the legal drama Perry Mason. The project has two new writers and is rapidly moving forward with Downey Jr. set to play Erle Stanley Gardner’s classic character, an unorthodox private investigator and defense attorney named of course, Perry Mason. Gardner created the character in the early 1930s, and since then, Mason has been featured in more than 80 novels […]
Getty Images/Michael Buckner(LOS ANGELES) -- Director Tobe Hooper, who revolutionized horror movies with his low-budget 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, died on Saturday at 74, Variety reports. According to the magazine, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said it was a natural death. Shot on a budget of less than $300,000, Texas Chainsaw Massacre popularized a low-fi aesthetic shaped the look of horror movies for a generation. In 1982, Hooper directed another horror […]
Courtesy HBO(NEW YORK) --After a thrilling season, Sunday night's Game of Thrones season finale didn't disappoint. We found out that Jon Snow's real name is Aegon Targaryen, and that he's the rightful heir to the Iron Throne. Also, Jon and Daenerys -- who are nephew and aunt -- finally did it, and Lord Baelish, a.k.a. Littlefinger, came to a bloody end, courtesy of Arya's dagger. And oh yeah: the zombie […]
Lionsgate/Jack English(LOS ANGELES) -- The Hitman's Bodyguard maintained its place at number one in what turned out to be the weakest August weekend at the movies in more than 20 years. The film earned an estimated $10 million dollars in the states, but there's a chance that when the final numbers come in, the total could wind up in the single digits -- a two-year-low. Annabelle: Creation took second place with a $7.35 […]
