Year: 2017

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McGregor 88-year-old dies in grain bin accident

An 88-year-old northeast Iowa man has died in a farm accident. A McGregor man died Monday afternoon after an incident at a rural Luana farm. The Clayton county sheriff’s department says 88-year old Duane Walter entered a grain bin to break up some corn and became completely submerged. Rescue crews worked for an hour to […]Powered by WPeMatico

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State News

US Marshals seeking information about Sioux City sex offender

U.S. Marshals are asking for the public’s help in finding a 31-year-old man who walked away from a residential treatment facility in Sioux City. James Lightfoot of Sioux City was sent to the facility after he failed to register as a sex offender. He has blond hair and blue eyes and the Iowa Department of […]Powered by WPeMatico

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State News

State regulators visiting Cedar Rapids casino sites

The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission will begin the final steps in deciding whether a new gambling license is awarded to Cedar Rapids today. Racing and Gaming administrator, Brian Ohorilko, says the commission will  be in the city for its meeting and they will visit all three sites. Ohorilko says the meeting will also include more […]Powered by WPeMatico

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Entertainment

“OItNB” Emmy winner Uzo Aduba, Lee Daniels, and Diddy show support for #taketheknee protest

FilmMagic/Roy Rochlin(NEW YORK) -- After Donald Trump's comments over the weekend about how NFL players -- or any pro athletes -- who decide to protest the national anthem by taking a knee should be fired, many celebrities are speaking out against the president  and "taking the knee" in support. "It's that easy. #takeaknee," Orange Is the New Black actress Uzo Aduba tweeted, sharing an image of herself taking the knee in front an African-inspired painting. Empire creator Lee Daniels showed […]

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Entertainment

Quentin Tarantino’s engagement party becomes “Pulp Fiction” reunion

Getty Images/Rich Fury(NEW YORK) -- Quentin Tarantino's celebration of his recent engagement to Israeli singer Daniella Pick became something of a Pulp Fiction reunion, the New York Post reports. The event, which took place at the New York City eatery Socialista, drew veterans of the influential Oscar-winning epic, including Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, and Harvey Keitel, as well as Tarantino's longtime producers -- and, incidentally, the guys who threw the […]

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Entertainment

“The Good Doctor” star Freddie Highmore’s happy to finally be saving people, not killing them

ABC/Eike Schroter(LOS ANGELES) -- The Good Doctor premieres tonight on ABC. The show, from House creator David Shore, is about a wunderkind doctor who sees things a little differently, because he's autistic. Star Freddie Highmore tells ABC Radio the role is a change from his last one, where he played Norman Bates on the show Bates Motel, a prequel to the legendary horror film Psycho. "I guess after so many […]

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Entertainment

Jeff Bridges says Elton John “comes to the party all guns blazing” in “Kingsman: The Golden Circle”

John Russo © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox FIlm Corp.(NEW YORK) -- Director Matthew Vaughn wanted to put Elton John in his movie 2014 Kingsman: The Secret Service but couldn't find a way to work him into the plot.  But Vaughn did get Elton into the new sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle -- and one of Elton's Oscar-winning co-stars gives his performance a big thumbs up. In Golden Circle, which had […]

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Entertainment

“Young Sheldon” premieres tonight; star has never seen “The Big Bang Theory”

CBS/Jeffrey R. Staab(LOS ANGELES) -- TV's most-watched sitcom gets a spinoff tonight, with the premiere of Young Sheldon. The CBS show takes a look at the early years of genius Sheldon Cooper, from The Big Bang Theory. Jim Parsons has been playing the adult Sheldon for 10 years -- he recently told journalists that while his childhood was very different from Sheldon Cooper's, he can identify with him being different […]

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Who will be the first to go home tonight on “Dancing with the Stars?”

ABC/Craig Sjodin(LOS ANGELES) -- Tonight will see the first elimination of the season on Dancing with the Stars.  That of course begs the question: who will be the first to go home? Shark Tank star Barbara Corcoran seems the likely candidate, based on her low first-week scores – and she knows her millions can’t help her in the ballroom.  “Money can never buy anything worthwhile, but accomplishment makes you feel like a million bucks, […]

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