The final chuckwagon race was held at the Clay County Sunday at high noon. Race announcer Rich Greenlee says three of the six wagon owners who raced yesterday in Spencer are retiring. “Three wagons for a race would be pretty boring,” Greenlee says. “so they decided to call it quits.” Horse-drawn chuckwagons were essentially mobile […]Powered by WPeMatico
A Michigan man faces a drug-related charge after a traffic stop in northeast Iowa that authorities say uncovered a quarter of a million dollars worth of marijuana. Shortly after 10:30 Sunday night, a Dubuque County deputy pulled 36-year-old Graham Musial over on Highway 61, near the small community of Key West, for a traffic violation. […]Powered by WPeMatico
Class 4A 1. Ankeny Centennial (2-0), LW #2 vs Waterloo West 2. WDM Valley (2-0), LW #5 @ #3 Kennedy 3. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (2-0), LW #4 vs #2 Valley 4. Dowling Catholic (1-1), LW #1 vs Johnston 5. Bettendorf (2-0), LW #6 vs Dubuque Hempstead 6. Cedar Falls (2-0), LW #7 vs #7 Ankeny […]Powered by WPeMatico
Plans are moving forward for a Minnesota tomato producer’s new growing facility on Mason City’s south side. Bushel Boy Farms of Owatonna plans to grow hydroponic tomatoes on an 80-acre development on the southwest side of the city. North Iowa Corridor Economic Development Corporation CEO Chad Schreck says he’s been working with Bushel Boy Farms […]Powered by WPeMatico
There will be an amped-up pre-game atmosphere for this year’s Iowa-Iowa State football game. For the first time, ESPN’s College Football GameDay will broadcast from Ames on Saturday. “GameDay, for the last 25 years, has been the traveling TV show that goes to the biggest game every week,” said Jack Whitver of Ankeny, a prominent […]Powered by WPeMatico
GOP leaders in South Carolina, Nevada and Kansas are cancelling presidential nominating contests in their states, but the Republican Party of Iowa will be holding Caucuses on February 3rd. Iowa GOP chairman Jeff Kaufmann says party leaders here have “never considered” cancelling. “We want to show once again that Iowa is capable of doing this,” […]Powered by WPeMatico
Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) -- Investigators executed search warrants Sunday on the headquarters of the company that operated the charter dive boat that caught fire on Labor Day and sank off the coast of Southern California, killing 34 people trapped by flames in the doomed vessel's below-deck bunk quarters.A team of investigators from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Santa Barbara County […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Hurricane Dorian may have transitioned to a post-tropical cyclone but three more systems are developing in the Atlantic Ocean ahead of the peak of hurricane season.Tropical Storm Gabrielle remains in the open Atlantic. She will begin to take a more easterly track tonight through Monday. Going through the week, she may impact northern portions of Ireland and the UK as a post tropical cyclone.Two other […]
vmargineanu/iStock(CICERO, Ill.) -- A 28-year-old Illinois man is in critical condition and fighting for his life after he was struck in the head with a bowling ball during an altercation at a bowling alley last week in an attack that immediately went viral on the internet.According to Chicago ABC affiliate WLS-TV, Diamante Williams was at the Town Hall Bowl in Cicero, Illinois on Wednesday night when a fight broke out […]
