Governor Terry Branstad will be in front of a screen watching later today as the U.S. Senate votes on his nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to China. “It’s coming up at 5:30 eastern time,” Branstad told reporters this morning. “That’d be 4:30 our time.” Branstad is wearing a red tie, made in China today, but […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Davenport man is facing several charges after allegedly trying to lure a 16-year-old girl into his car. Davenport police say the girl reported that a man asked her if she needed a ride and tried to get her into his car Friday shortly before 4 p.m. The girl got away from the man and […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Waterloo police officer dodged a bullet Sunday night. A man allegedly shot at an officer who was investigating gunfire Sunday night. No injuries were reported. The incident began about 11:20 p.m. when police were called to the 700 block of West Parker Street after residents heard gunshots. One of the officers noticed a suspicious […]Powered by WPeMatico
Class 4A (2016 Record) 1. Dowling Catholic (30-11) 2. Iowa City West (35-7) 3. Johnston (29-11) 4. Des Moines Roosevelt (33-11) 5. Urbandale (29-11) 6. Cedar Falls (22-19) 7. Mason City (25-17) 8. Cedar Rapids Jefferson (28-12) 9. Lewis Central (32-6) 10. Cedar Rapids Prairie (38-6) Class 3A (2016 Record) 1. Harlan (30-5) 2. Davenport […]Powered by WPeMatico
Getty Images/Jason LaVeris(LOS ANGELES) -- Tom Hardy has gone from playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises to portraying another superhero baddie: Spider-Man's shape-shifting nemesis Venom. "Tom Hardy is Eddie Brock," reads the announcement made Friday by Sony Pictures, naming the character's human alter-ego. The post featured a menacing picture of the Mad Max actor wearing a Venom shirt. The character of Brock is a disgraced journalist who comes into contact with a black, gooey alien organism that […]
University of Maryland Police Department(COLLEGE PARK, Md.) -- The FBI is now investigating if an "unprovoked" college campus killing was a hate crime. Early Saturday morning, a black student from Bowie State University was stabbed to death on the University of Maryland campus near a bus stop outside Montgomery Hall at Regents Drive. The University of Maryland Police Department arrested Sean Christopher Urbanski, a 22-year-old white student at the school, […]
ABCNews.com(NOTRE DAME, Ind.) -- A group of graduating seniors from the University of Notre Dame turned their backs on their own graduation ceremony in protest of Vice President Mike Pence, who gave their commencement address there on Sunday.The protests, which were organized by a student activist group at Notre Dame called We Stand For, were staged in response to "marginalized people affected by Pence's politics," according to a Facebook post […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Richard Rojas, the 26-year-old Navy veteran who rammed his car into a crowd in New York's Times Square last week, killing an 18-year-old woman and injuring 20 others, claims that he reached out to a mental health counselor prior to taking his fateful drive. “He said he’d call me on Monday," Rojas told the New York Post in a jailhouse interview while speaking about his attempts to […]
Former Iowa Lieutenant Governor Joy Corning died this weekend. She was 84. Corning was in her sixth year as a state senator when Terry Branstad picked Corning as his lieutenant governor running mate in 1990. Corning served eight years in the post. “She, I think, was the epitome of civility,” said Mary Ellen Miller, executive director […]Powered by WPeMatico
