The latest Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report shows the largest U.S. hog herd on record and livestock market analysts say the industry is positioned to grow. Iowa is the nation’s top pork producing state, with 22.2 million hogs and pigs on Iowa farms. That’s up 7-percent from a year ago. Lee Schulz, an economist with […]Powered by WPeMatico
An eastern Iowa man is behind bars, charged in the death of a child. Williamsburg Police say 29-year-old Cody James Stevenson is not related to the child. Stevenson was initially arrested and charged with willful injury Monday morning, but the charges were upgraded to first-degree murder after the child died Monday evening. The child’s name and […]Powered by WPeMatico
The state law that allowed someone to sign a lifetime self-ban for gambling changed July 1st to give people the option of also signing a 5-year ban. Anyone who signs the ban is prevented from entering the gaming floor at Iowa’s casinos. Iowa Lottery spokesperson Mary Neubauer says they sell lottery tickets at thousands of […]Powered by WPeMatico
Fireworks sales have been legal in Iowa since June 1. A businessman whose company has been selling consumer-grade fireworks in four neighboring states for years says the most popular sellers are called “cakes” — because the effects are “layered.” “You have one fuse you light. Depending on the cake itself, the multi-effect item, you might […]Powered by WPeMatico
One of the newest and largest residents in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area is getting used to his surroundings after a long road trip from Ohio. Louie is a 12-year-old African elephant, the latest addition to the Henry Doorly Zoo. Zoo director Dennis Pate says the trip from the Toledo Zoo went smoothly for the 6,000 […]Powered by WPeMatico
Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners III/Buena Vista Pictures(CHICAGO) -- Today marks 30 years since audiences first watched Elisabeth Shue lead her babysitting charges around downtown Chicago in the movie Adventures in Babysitting. The directorial debut of Chris Columbus, the movie follows Shue's Chris Parker, who, after being stood up by her boyfriend, agrees to babysit for a Thor-obsessed girl named Sara, Sara's brother Brad and Brad's friend Darryl. After Chris' friend […]
ABCABC may have snagged American Idol, but the show's former home isn't taking it lying down. Variety reports that Fox is developing a new singing competition. The competition comes from an Israeli production company called Armoza Formats. The show works this way: the four finalists are chosen in the first episode, and then new contestants come on each week to challenge them and "steal" one of their slots. The show […]
Brandon Hickman/E! EntertainmentE! News co-host Maria Menounos, whose mother is currently battling brain cancer, learned a few weeks ago that she too has a brain tumor. "I didn’t cry. I actually laughed. It’s so surreal and crazy and unbelievable that my mom has a brain tumor—and now I have one too?” she told People magazine for this week's cover. Last month the TV host was in surgery for seven hours […]
Chance Yeh/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Billy McFarland, the co-founder of the failed "fiasco" Fyre Festival, which was canceled earlier this year, was released on bail over the weekend after being arrested Friday on fraud charges. The tech entrepreneur was charged with wire fraud in connection to his digital company, Fyre Media, as well as for his botched luxe music festival that made headlines in April after attendees were left stranded […]
