More than 650 dealers are now licensed to sell fireworks in Iowa, but about a third of the required inspections were not completed before selling began. Barbara Edmondson, an attorney for the Iowa Department of Public Safety, says it was a challenge getting the licensing program up and running once the governor signed the bill May […]Powered by WPeMatico
The annual report from the state Public Drinking Water Program shows only a small percentage of public drinking water supplies are failing to meet all the federal quality standards. The executive officer of the program, Diane Moles, says the percentage of water systems in compliance this year was at nearly 95 percent, which is the […]Powered by WPeMatico
An Uber ride in Iowa City this weekend could be free, depending on who your driver is. Last fall, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse made a bet that the Cornhuskers would beat the Hawkeyes in football. He made this bet in a series of public tweets. Nebraska lost and now Sasse is honoring the bet, so he […]Powered by WPeMatico
Elizabeth Moss as Offred in "The Handmaiden's Tale" - Hulu 2017(LOS ANGELES) -- Praise be! Drake may be returning to his acting roots if one of Canada’s most successful writers gets her wish. Margaret Atwood, whose 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale inspired the current hit Hulu TV series of the same name, wants Drizzy to make appear in the show. "Wouldn’t it be fun for him to have a cameo […]
ABC/Randy Holmes(LONDON) -- During a question and answer session with an audience at London's National Theatre, actor Andrew Garfield gave an unusual reason for why he, a straight man, is able to portray a gay man in an adaptation of the play Angels in America. "As far as I know, I am not a gay man," the former Amazing Spider-Man star began, according to the UK's Gay Times. "Maybe I’ll […]
Gregg DeGuire/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt has proposed to actress Meredith Salenger, 15 months after the unexpected death of his writer wife, Michelle McNamara. The news initially came from a source who told People that the pair began seeing each other after they had become friends. They were introduced to each other by a mutual pal, former Real O'Neals star Martha Plimpton and first went public last month, […]
Getty Images - TERM/Jason Merritt(LOS ANGELES) -- The Hills alum Lauren Conrad and her husband, William Tell, welcomed their first child on Wednesday. Fashion and lifestyle entrepreneur Conrad, 31, made the announcement in an appropriately crafty Instagram post: a needlepoint showing a man, along with a woman holding a baby and two dogs. "The Tells, and then there were 5" is stitched beneath it. The post is captioned, "He's here! We're […]
Getty Images/Michael Tran(LOS ANGELES) -- Alyssa Milano is accusing her former business manager of financial misconduct that has left her millions of dollars in debt.The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court in Van Nuys Friday, alleges that accountant Kenneth Hellie and his firm, Hellie, Hoffer & Co., forged Milano's signature on checks, failed to pay overdue bills and taxes, and coaxed her into making bad investments, according to documents obtained by Variety. Milano […]
CNN(LOS ANGELES) -- Fellow celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain went all Gordon Ramsay after a screening of director Edgar Wright's new hit film. "F*** BABY DRIVER," Bourdain wrote in an uncensored tweet sent on the Fourth of July. The tweet prompted Selma director Ava DuVernay to clap back. Coming to the defense of her fellow director, whose new, star-studded movie follows a heist gone wrong, she posted, "You don't have to like it. But […]
