A conference on “digital literacy” in Ames this fall will focus on how educators and parents can provide the best “media diet” for kids. The Mayo Clinic and Iowa State University are among the cosponsors. Speakers include experts from China and Singapore as well as the United States. “The conference brings together some of world’s […]Powered by WPeMatico
Police have released more information about a deadly shooting at the Iowa City Pedestrian Mall. Autopsy results, made public Tuesday, show 23-year-old Kaleek Jones died from a gunshot wound to the back and neck. Jones died at a hospital two days after the shooting during the early morning hours of August 27. Two other people […]Powered by WPeMatico
Governor Kim Reynolds is giving no hints about who she may choose as a replacement for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey. “We have a lot of people under consideration,” Reynolds told reporters Tuesday during her weekly news conference. “…When the time is appropriate, we’ll make that decision.” President Trump has nominated Northey to be […]Powered by WPeMatico
If you are a heart patient with a pacemaker, the Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about the mini computer that is inside each device. Unity Point St. Lukes Hospital cardiologist, Doctor Roque Arteaga says the FDA warning is due to the possibility that a computer hacker could interfere with how the pacemaker […]Powered by WPeMatico
Governor Kim Reynolds leaves today for official state business overseas. During stops in Israel, Reynolds will be signing two “memorandums of understanding” that will formally link institutions in Israel with Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. “A big percentage of their GDP goes to research and development and they’re very innovative and entrepreneurial […]Powered by WPeMatico
(L-R) David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chris Carter - FOX(NEW YORK) -- An exclusive peek at the new limited-run season of The X-Files will be unveiled by series creator and executive producer Chris Carter October 10 at New York Comic Con, as part of the show's sold-out Q&A panel. Carter and X-Files stars David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and Mitch Pileggi will be on hand for the event. The all-new 10-episode series will feature Duchovny and Anderson returning in […]
© 2017 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND RATPAC-DUNE ENTERTAINMENT LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED(PENNSYLVANIA) -- Cops in a Pennsylvania borough are serving and protecting, but they're also showing off their senses of humor after a "prankster" imitated the spooky movie It. When red helium-filled balloons began showing up tied to sewer grates in Lititz -- the trademark of the murderous clown Pennywise, according to Stephen King's book -- the department took to Facebook. "...[w]e give points for […]
Netflix/Pax Thien Jolie Pitt(LOS ANGELES) -- It's been almost a year since Angelina Jolie announced her separation from Brad Pitt and in a new interview, the actress admits the split has been hard. She tells the Sunday Telegraph that doing interviews for her new Netflix movie, First They Killed My Father, she has been "a little shy...because I am not as strong inside as I have been in the past." Pitt and Jolie have yet to finalize […]
ABC/Paula Lobo (NEW YORK) -- The season four finale of Power aired on Sunday, and now the show's executive producer 50 Cent wants fans of the series to boycott the television cable network that broadcasts it. On Sunday, he wrote on Instagram, "I don't think the STARZ network realize your watching POWER because it's my show. So take STARZ out of your cable package after you see POWER tonight. Then […]
