DES MOINES — President Barack Obama returns to Iowa Thursday for the second time this month for what his campaign team is calling a “grassroots event” at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. The event comes a day after the Obama campaign released two new ads. One called “Sacred Trust” highlights veterans’ issues and the killing [...]
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Prepare yourself for a wide variety of prices at the pump this Memorial Day weekend. Gasoline prices range from an average $3.28 per gallon in Davenport to $4.29 in Chicago, according to a May 16 survey. Although a gallon of gas is about 20 cents cheaper this year, AAA auto club reports that motorists [...]
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PALO — Chest high grass in picnic areas, overgrown trails and some unopened facilities. That’s what greeted state park visitors in 2011 after budget cuts eliminated some seasonal maintenance workers. Park managers said they heard a lot of complaints about weeds as tall as picnic tables and the generally “scruffy” appearance of many state [...]
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DUBUQUE — It sounds like the beginning of a joke: A man, a zebra and a parrot walk into a bar. This time it was no joke. That’s exactly what Jerald Reiter, 55, of Cascade, said he did Sunday night in Dubuque. Dubuque police found the trio in the cab of Reiter’s pickup truck [...]
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President Barack Obama is heading to the political battleground state of Iowa this week to prod Congress to act on his agenda. The president will visit TPI Composites, a wind manufacturer in Newton, on Thursday to highlight his push for tax credits to encourage investments in clean energy technologies. The trip is part of Obama’s [...]
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The family of an Iowa woman shot and killed by a Texas doctor is seeking money from his estate for burial expenses, hospital costs and the value of her estate had she lived. Des Moines attorney George LaMarca told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier on Monday that he filed the petition in Buchanan County District Court. [...]
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Iowa farmers are taking advantage of the dry weather to finish planting the corn and soybean crops, but the state could use a good soaking. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says 98 percent of the corn is in the ground. Some farmers are replanting fields damaged by storms in late April. The USDA says in [...]
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Autopsy results have confirmed the bodies of two people found in a western Iowa state park are those of a missing Nebraska woman and her 10-year-old son, police said Tuesday. Police in Council Bluffs, Iowa, said the bodies were identified as Charlotte Schilling, 41, and her son, Owen. The mother and son went missing from [...]
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Police were called to the home of Richard and Janet Sweet numerous times in the last year for problems, including some violent encounters with their grandson, Isaiah Sweet, who is accused of killing them over Mother’s Day weekend, according to service call records from the Manchester Police Department. Either Richard Sweet, 55, or his wife [...]
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During a search of the Chevrolet Avalanche that double-murder suspect Isaiah Sweet was driving early May 13 when police stopped him in Iowa City, detectives found drugs and paraphernalia, including medication prescribed to his grandmother, who he’s accused of killing. Isaiah Sweet, 17, of Manchester, is accused of shooting and killing both his grandparents – [...]
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