Police in the Quad-Cities area are dealing with a rash of car thefts and say those thefts can lead to more serious crimes. Thieves have taken more than 250 vehicles in the Quad-Cities since the start of the year. At a news conference, officers from both sides of the Mississippi showed surveillance videos demonstrating how […]Powered by WPeMatico
Authorities in southeast Iowa say the Dakota Access oil pipeline was vandalized Tuesday in Wapello County. Deputies responded to a pipeline monitoring station near Hedrick. Deputies say a vandal or vandals cut through a chain link fence and attempted to damage the pipeline. The vandal reportedly used a blowtorch to attempt to cut through the […]Powered by WPeMatico
Some students at Iowa State University are likely having more fun than other students around the state — as they all scramble to finish class projects before the end of the spring semester. That’s because the ISU students, in James Lathrop’s computer science class, are making a video game. It’s not your traditional video game. […]Powered by WPeMatico
Iowa’s two walleye hatcheries in Spirit Lake and Rathbun are filled to capacity after what the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says was a record hall in the annual collection of walleye eggs. Chief of Fisheries Joe Larscheid says the DNR crews were out from April 4th through the 11th collecting the eggs that will […]Powered by WPeMatico
The reception Governor Terry Branstad got Tuesday from a key U.S. senate committee seems to signal he’ll easily be confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to China. “You’ve had an outstanding hearing,” Senator Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee who leads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Branstad. “I think your on-the-ground experiences with China will serve […]Powered by WPeMatico
ABC/Randy Holmes(ATLANTA) -- Once again, a Marvel movie star is doing something superheroic through the charity site Omaze. Robert Downey Jr. just launched another campaign to raise money for his pet charity organization Random Act Funding, which benefits organizations like Toys for Tots, the Boys & Girls Club, and Upward Bound House. In exchange for a starting donation of $10, which buys you a hundred chances to snag the grand prize, […]
Photo: McTeams Photography(NEW YORK) -- Robert O'Neill had been on hundreds of missions as a Navy SEAL, but three inspired Oscar-nominated movies: Captain Phillips, about the rescue of Captain Richard Philips from Somali pirates; Lone Survivor, about a deadly mission-gone-wrong in Afghanistan; and Zero Dark Thirty, about the mission to take down 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. O'Neill was the SEAL who shot and killed bin Laden, the culmination of […]
Photo: McTeams Photography(NEW YORK) -- Robert O'Neill had been on hundreds of missions as a Navy SEAL, but three inspired Oscar-nominated movies: Captain Phillips, about the rescue of Captain Richard Philips from Somali pirates; Lone Survivor, about a deadly mission-gone-wrong in Afghanistan; and Zero Dark Thirty, about the mission to take down 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. O'Neill was the SEAL who shot and killed bin Laden, the culmination of […]
Getty Images/Bruce Glikas(NEW YORK) -- The Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday, and the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 has scored a leading 12 Tony Award nominations, including one for its star, singer and actor Josh Groban.Movie and TV actors were well represented again this year, with former Frasier Emmy-winner David Hyde Pierce, nominated for the revival of Hello, Dolly!, with star Bette Midler also […]
